HUMA 2640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Jay Gatsby
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The american dream is the ideal that every american citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and passion regardless of background or past history. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past . Situated at the end of daisy"s east egg dock, the green light represents gatsby"s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with daisy, and in chapter 1 he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way that might have been the end of a dock. In our first glimpse of jay gatsby, we see him reaching towards something far off, something in sight but definitely out of reach. This famous image of the green light is often understood as part of the great.
