Gatsby 's Fatal Obsession : The Golden Girl

Gatsby had constantly in mind the date he lost Daisy; he dreamt of the day he could have her back and of the day she would confess her love to him. “Five years next November” (87) he told Daisy when they met again. Five years waiting for his true love, five years idealizing his girl, five years of constant work to acquire enough wealth to have her back. “No, we couldn’t meet. But both of us loved each other all the time…” (131) argued Gatsby to Tom, Daisy’s husband, explaining the eternal love he felt for Daisy and the love he though Daisy shared with him. Gatsby love did not end the day Daisy married Tom,

The green colour represents Gatsby’s obsession over Daisy, who embodies his TAD as well as his devotion to love. He makes it his life goal to become prosperous and wealthy so he can impress Daisy’s expensive needs and in turn win or buy back her affection. All throughout the story, he gets involved with bootlegging, crime and extravagant parties hoping Daisy will take notice. Gatsby dream eventually comes to a halt when Daisy runs over and kills Myrtle with his car and Gatsby is left to take responsibility. The green colour of the light is replaced with corruption, as Fitzgerald compares it to “a fresh, green breast of the new world” ( pg

The green light means something to Gatsby. It represents his hope and desires. Since it was “minute and far away” and Gatsby was “[stretching] out his arms” toward it while “trembling” it shows how close he is to achieving his goal, which is Daisy, but he just misses it (20-21). Speaking of the light again in chapter five, Nick enforces this idea of the green light representing Gatsby’s

In the beginning of the novel, Nick returns home from a dinner party from Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s house and sees his neighbor Gatsby wondering why he is looking out into nothing “ except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been the end of a dock. When i looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.” (21) Jay Gatsby seeing the green light as a color of true hope that one day he will get his girl of his dreams back. With Gatsby this is the only thing he is holding out too because he knows that he will achieve that unattainable dream he has made. Later on in the novel Gatsby mentions the green light again to Daisy when they are at his mansion; which he has been watching her “If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,” said Gatsby. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” (92) Then the green light is mentioned again later in the novel, when Gatsby professed his love to daisy in front of Tom. And Gatsby waits outside of Daisy’s house and then the green light is no longer there because all hope is lost now for Gatsby’s dream. This was a platform of what Gatsby was all about and that he had a strong hope for her that nothing would ever stop him from loving

Green is another significant color in this novel; however unlike white, it represents a variety of ideas. One of the most significant one is “hope”. Throughout the novel, the color green is used to represent Gatsby’s undying hope. The green light that is at the end of Daisy and Tom’s dock is what Gatsby reaches out for. For example in the beginning of the novel, it is already shown that Gatsby stares at that light. Nick observes and describes Gatsby by stating, “…I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.” This shows what that green light means to Gatsby. It is the symbol of Gatsby's hopes and dreams. It represents everything that haunts and beckons him: the physical and emotional distance between him and Daisy, the gap between the past and the present, the promises of the future, and could also mean money since it is also green. One of the instances

The color green symbolizes hope. More specifically, it symbolizes how Gatsby never loses hope in his dream of one day being with Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock to show how Gatsby’s hope is always there. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (p 180). He thought as long as the light was there, he still had a chance with Daisy. The only problem is that eventually all lights turn red, and Gatsby eventually loses his chance with Daisy and then later loses his life.

In the rising action of the novel Nick finds Gatsby alone on his lawn with “his arm toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light” (Fitzgerald 21). The source of the green light is later revealed to be at the end of Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s dock. The green light symbolizes the American Dream and Daisy, both of which Gatsby is very close to achieving, though not quite close enough. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (Fitzgerald 180). Throughout the novel Gatsby held on to the hope that he can have a

The dream in its infancy started for Gatsby when he moved to West Egg. The green light lies behind Gatsby’s house on the dock. It symbolizes the physical and emotional distance between Gatsby and Daisy, also the gap between the present and past, and as well, the certainty of the future. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us” (pg.180). The glowing of the green light promises the optimism of getting Daisy back. The color green is a positive color

The green light at Daisy 's house dock is a metaphor for Gatsby 's dream. The action of Gatsby hopelessly glanced toward and stretched his arm expressed his desire of reaching his dream. Green as usual, represent the darkness, evilness. Envy, desire of society and the impossible of achieving the materialistic American Dream. The last page of the novel, where Nick Caraway expressed his felling about the reality of this world after "experienced" it. He says, "His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it" (180). After Gatsby 's dead, Nick realized how disgusting "American Dream" and the society are. Gatsby has followed his dream and he has found it so close, so close that it seems so far away. This quote doesn 't mention anything about the green light, but it explains the meaning of the green light in a very literature way. The light behind the fog portrays such impractical dream and hope, it 's also symbolize the quixotic of the existence of the "American Dream". Even Gatsby, with his unbelievable passion and effort to reach his goal still never reach it! American Dream is not a goal, it 's just an illusion. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine

In the novel The Great Gatsby, the main character Jay Gatsby displays true love toward Daisy; although to do so he destroys his morals. Romance novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford proclaimed that this novel is to be "the greatest love story ever told". Gatsby was an average boy when he first met Daisy who was from a higher class then he. When he first met her “his heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed [Daisy], and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, is mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” (Fitzgerald, 110) Even after having fought in the war and being away from Daisy for years, he never forgot her. Being from a lower class Gatsby’s goal was to become wealthy to impress Daisy, his love, and be at a status where he could wed her. To achieve Daisy’s love Gatsby had to destroy his morals in order to become prosperous. In order to become wealthy “[Gatsby] and Wolfsheim

He wastes tons of money on parties hoping she will come. the symbolism goes beyond that… Whether it’s Money, success, acceptance, or Daisy,— Gatsby has spent his whole life longing for something better. So we could also say that the green light stands for all of Gatsby's hopes and dreams.

The green light is located at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock. It is barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, yet he still looks out at it every night. The green light represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. He tends to associate this green light with Daisy, whom was his first love, but left him because he didn’t have enough money at the time and Daisy came from an aristocratic family. “...He stretched his arms towards the dark water in a mysterious way… I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock,” (Pg 25-26, Fitzgerald). Gatsby sees this green dock light as a guiding factor to lead him to his goal, which is to get Daisy

"there must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. " Gatsby’s dreams have outweighed the presence, and when things don’t fall as perfectly as he imagines, he gets upset. The green light is a symbol of this illusionary dream that Gatsby has.

The first appearance of the green light is at the end of Chapter 1. When Nick came back from Tom’s house, he saw Gatsby “stretched out his arm toward the dark”, and there was “nothing except a single green light”.(p.25) And after this encounter, we know the green light is from Tom’s house, where Daisy lives. As the result of this, the green light for Gatsby must be related to Daisy in somehow, but not just Daisy herself. For Gatsby, the green light means the desire of becoming one of the upper classes, and it is Daisy who gives him the strength to work on it after meeting her. The green is more like a destination for Gatsby to endeavor, which is the same as the American Dream for the whole America. It gives those who are working class the meaning of living.

The quote says that his love is adolescent, which in the adolescent or teen years it means that they become so focused on the one person that they forget everything else and this is what Gatsby does. He became so focused on her and his love for her that he can’t focus on anything else. He could’ve accomplished so many more things. He focused on her and his love for her that he forgot himself in the process. The past corrupts Gatsby’s dream of love, because he wants what he had even though it is impossible for him to have it again. Daisy already has the money and the status with Tom and she won’t give that up to be with Gatsby.