Significance Of The Green Light In The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald had the creative and extraordinary way of writing The Great Gatsby based on compassion, death, and betrayal. The author even included themes like justice, power, and greed. Through the fanciful parties that Gatsby threw, the love that Daisy Buchanan and Gatsby showed, and the society that loved wealth and money, The Great Gatsby is expressed through past and present. This nine chapter novel demonstrates different social classes, money, domination, and love. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays a strong message through this chapter without a title, but yet “The End of the Green Light” connects the beginning of the novel to the end.

After the death of Jay Gatsby, the rumors about him continued, with so many people surrounding the funeral. Nick realized that Tom

Furthermore, Tom and Daisy were no longer the people that they were portrayed to be in the beginning of the novel. Additionally, they destroyed the things of everyone else and did not care. They believed that their money will protect them from everything negative. In the beginning of the book, the green light had an importance that was not yet recognized. This then connected to the end of a book, with the idea that there was a beginning of the green light, but now there is an end to the green light. Before the death of Gatsby, he would look across the bay multiple times, looking at the green light. He would throw amazing parties hoping that Daisy would notice and come over. The quote, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (page 78), was used in the novel to explain why Gatsby lived so close to Daisy. In addition to that, it supported the fact that he wanted to get Daisy’s attention in the beginning of the novel. Sooner than later, the gazing of the green light and the amazing parties ended. At the end of the novel, Nick looked up at Gatsby’s mansion for one last time (page 180). He imagined America and how America