What Does The Green Light Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

Every color has a deeper meaning, and every person has a color that symbolizes events they have gone through in life. In The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald readers examine Jay Gatsby’s struggles of trying to rekindle his lost relationship with a woman named Daisy a cousin of a young bondsman Nick (narrator of novel). Yet also trying to handle Daisy’s already cheating husband Tom and his mistress, Myrtle, and her husband George Wilson. Fitzgerald uses colors to symbolize the scramble to achieve the pretentious and impossible American Dream
In Chapter 9 Fitzgerald furthers his analysis of the American dream. Nick Carraway says, “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” (Fitzgerald 154). The green light demonstrates Gatsby’s goals and desire to become this character, his mentor Dan Cody created for Jay as a kid. Green has many meanings, renewal, growth, hope compassion and luck. Gatsby wanted to renew and enhance his relationship with Daisy. He also hoped and wanted everything to go his way. At

J. Eckleburg remnants symbolize past and present, Valley of Ashes used to be flourishing and full of business. It also leaves readers confused with how such a billboard can be so bright in such a dusty dark place. Fitzgerald says, “The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic - their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose” (Fitzgerald ch.2). Later in Gatsby, Wilson (Myrtle’s Husband) says T.J eyes resemble those of gods (he sees everything). Blue connects to the sky, truth and heaven, which supports Wilson’s belief of godly eyes. T.J’s eyes can also be brought back to Gatsby’s eyes vacant and empty, but later bringing seriousness, knowledge and