The Green Light in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: The Green Light in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Green Light
Essay Question: “Gastby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It
eluded us then, but that’s no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... and then one fine
morning - So we beat on, boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald, 171)
Why is this quote one of the most significant quotes from the novel? Answer this question whilst referring to the
way in which this quote sums up, and is, a metaphor for Gatsby.
From the earliest forms of literature the concept of light has held huge significance in the world. Synonymous with
the powerfulness of love and the idea of rebirth, it holds both hope and a sense of yearning. In famous novel, now
turned motion picture, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, we see this same overwhelming significance as Jay
Gatsby stands on his dock with outstretched fingers towards a green light in the distance. Narrator, Nick Carraway,
observes this, stating “Gastby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It
eluded us then, but that’s no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... and then one fine
morning - So we beat on, boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald, 171). This
light mentioned throughout the novel, beaming green, the colour of hope, is positioned at the end of Daisy
Buchanan’s dock and is one greatest metaphors for the ideals, Jay Gatsby, is reaching for and the past he left
behind. Through the eyes of Nick, we see not only the torment this light and dream brings for Gatsby but the
demise of human morale during the 1920’s, and the emptiness it left behind. (Neuffer,...
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