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Green Light In The Great Gatsby

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Introduction: The Great Gatsby tells us a story taking place over only a few months in a small area in the vicinity of Long Island, The Great Gatsby is a panorama of the entire American society in the Jazz Age, and a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole. On the surface it is a thwarted love between a man and a woman, but actually it is a story of the distorted American Dream disillusioned in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess, in which lies this novel’s social significance. The definition of American Dream James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “American Dream” in his 1931 book Epic of America: “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every …show more content…

This green light is small and far away, but attracts Gatsby, he looked at it as praying in the altar, after it has become a symbol of Daisy is all the good things in the hope that the romantic Gatsby in mind, this is the main part of the American dream of Gatsby. The green light lead him from poor to rich, and finally die. In chapter five, when Gatsby dates with Daisy, he told us the meaning of the green light “Daisy put her arm through his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her.” Daisy stay with him now, Gatsby’s dream seemed to come true, which means he will get his happiness. However, when Gatsby died, the green light thirdly appear “ 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 morning...” When the first settlers reach the New World, American dream inspire people to pursue for success and wealth. However, at that times,, the American Dream has been destroyed by money-worshiping and hedonism. The dream that Gatsby pursued all the time doomed to burst from the beginning, because he worshiped money. …show more content…

“In the early years, the American Dream is Puritan’s desire for the freedom in religion and creation. Along with the expansion to the West, the American Dream develops into the pursuit of happiness, especially the pursuit of success, including career, love and wealth. After the Civil War, the American Dream becomes more popular and more concrete and it makes people believe that as long as he works hard, a poor boy can become a millionaire on this wonderful land which is full of opportunity. “(Gao Hui, 2008) When human history develops into the twentieth century, the American Dream becomes the main aim of Americans. But the nature of the American Dream has

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