“I find hope in the darkest of days.” They say it’s better to stay in the dark, because in the dark there may be fear, but there is also hope. Hope to get out alive, hope to survive, hoping that there is a sign, maybe even a greenlight…? To dream is a series of thoughts, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind. To hope, is a feeling or expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Hope is something that is obtainable through a dream. A dream is something that everyone has in common, including Jay Gatsby.
Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he uses many thematic symbols. To further his idea on “The American Dream.” The green light was a lamp at the end of Daisy, and Tom Buchanan’s boat dock. By the light being at the end of the dock, Gatsby could always see it, and wanted it to be obtainable for him. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.’’ (99) The green light was a key color, and symbol in the novel. Symbolizing hope, a future with Daisy, and desires. All of which were apart of Gatsby’s dreams.
We associate the color green with life. Green is everywhere, it is the most common color in the natural world. Green stands for balance, nature, and rebirth. It is the symbol of prosperity, freshness, and progress. Green may represent positivity, but it also represents negativity. We also associate the color with wealth, money, and greed. Three major things that separates people from themselves and others. In the Great Gatsby greed plays a part. Instead of just separating people, it also separates where they live, between the East Egg and West Egg. “I lived at West Egg, the well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins…” (1)
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Green is very symbolic in the novel and so is money, the connection between the two is, money is green. Part of the “American Dream,” is making money, so Gatsby tries to mimic this dream. By taking drastic measures into become rich, and being with Daisy. He goes so far as to achieving his money in a dirty way, through drugs, bonds, and lying to people. Because of Jay Gatsby growing up poor, he later solves all his problems with money, looking at wealth as the only solution.
The two, Daisy and Gatsby play hand in hand, through the power of money. Daisy ultimately chooses the security of money, over true love. Therefore making Gatsby money hungry, to finally achieve Daisy, by becoming rich. After all her voice was “full of money.” “Full of money, that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals song of it…” (128)
