The Green Light

At the beginning of the novel when Nick first arrives to West Egg he first sees Gatsby reaching out his arms to a green light to the other side. The green light represents money, hope, new life, and to Gatsby that is what getting Daisy means to him. Green is the combination of blue and yellow which also symbolizes hot and cold or high and low which tells about Daisy because she is a good person in a bad situation.This is what Gatsby believes he will get from Daisy.



At the end of the novel Daisy’s dock is barely visible from Gatsby’s lawn. Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream. In Chapter 9, Nick compares the green light to how America looked like to early settlers. The American dream. When immigrants come to America it is because they want to live a better life. People come to America to give them hope and satisfaction in life that is the same with Gatsby trying to marry Daisy. He believed by doing that he would truly be happy.