Gatsby Green Light

Considered as a major part of American twentieth-century literature, “The Great Gatsby” was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, as a piece of work of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. The novel depicted the relationship between the two fictional characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy, and their hardship via the eyes of the narrator i.e. Nick Caraway. Gatsby attempted to fulfill his dream romantically and financially, but his romantic goal was not achieved in addition to his failure to enter to society. The symbolism in Fitzgerald’s novel portrays the concept that the American Dream had diminished and dwindled throughout time; perhaps didn’t even exist in history; it foreshadows the upcoming Great depression. The geography New York City and its surrounding
From Gatsby’s personal feelings, he “believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter- to-morrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther… And one fine morning--- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (180). Available evidence presents that the green light symbolizes Gatsby’s hopes for the future; corresponding with this, he’s always going to figuratively run faster and stretch his arms farther. Unfortunately, though, before his death, he never realizes that the boat, representing his life, was always being pushed back by the presence of obstacles (e.g. failure to be in a delightful relationship with Daisy, and his conflicts and clashes with Tom), albeit his determination to achieve his “orgastic” future, as mentioned in the novel. In conclusion, Jay Gatsby does not have the ability to achieve his dream, predominantly because of the deceptive American Dream, which eluded the population, particularly Gatsby, which set of the foreshadowing of the Great Depression, as aforementioned. All of the stated symbols all emphasizes the illusion of the American Dream; none ever display its presence in