Significance Of The Green Light In The Great Gatsby

If you think about it, we live in generally a very small community/town compared to others. It is not the our town/community is poor but just small and with this smallness you know the what is happening almost immediately. But the little things can stay unknown, as we find out in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The American dream is individualized for every character in this book, and that becomes very clear early on. There is yelling, sneaking around, lots of lying, and confessions; you never get bored. A huge part of the book that you think of a majority of the time is the green light. The green light helps you understand what is going on at certain parts of the book and changes what you feel about the certain scene. When Gatsby is reaching out towards the light, when he is standing with Daisy looking at the light and in the end when Nick thinks about the light is when you really understand and see how its meaning evolves throughout the book. The first time we came across Gatsby is also the first time we found the green light.

It was obvious that there was some kind of relief between the two, even though Daisy is married. "If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock." At this part when they are looking across the bay it clarifies that it is Daisy’s house and Gatsby says this to Daisy it was almost satisfying for him to be able to tell this to Daisy that he knows that right there is her house and he has been watching… waiting. But no longer is Gatsby reaching for it because there is no need since Daisy is right there with him. He sees it no longer as this enchanting light that holds his future, now it is just an object, Daisy is not over there right now. This is huge because for so long this is what his life was watching the light knowing the Daisy was over