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Significance Of Green Light In The Great Gatsby

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In The Great Gatsby graphic novel adaptation by K.Woodman-Manyard there are many themes that are reflected one of theme is , Having lots of money only sometimes makes you happy - it can leave you feeling unfulfilled. There are many pieces of evidence in this graphic to support this theme. To begin with let's look at the end of chapter 1 where we see Gatsby staring at the green light. During chapter one we are not exactly sure what this green light he is staring at represents we could only make a broad inference about it. As the novel progresses we find out the green light actually represents a state of hope. We also could only make a broad inference here about what Gatsby is hoping for staring until the novel progressed , as it progressed …show more content…

Daisy did not agree with his inference and married Tom. When Gatsby was discharged from the war , he became a bootlegger and got wealthy but he only got wealthy for one reason. The one reason is because he thought if he got wealthy he could throw partys and Daisy would come and see he's wealthy and leave Tom for him. Daisy does not even pay attention to any of his partiespartys until much later in the book. Due to this Gastby believed she would never take notice so him staring at the green light is for hope that Daisy will come to his partiespartys and essentially leave Tom for him once she sees he is wealthy. This represents the theme having lots of money only sometimes makesmake you happy. It canhappy it can leave you feeling unfulfilled because even though he is wealthy he does not feel happy and fulfilled because he does not have daisy. Moving on there is many more pieces of evidence that represents the theme in the graphic , another example would be conversation Gatsby had with Nick that involved Gatsby telling him “ she didn'tdidint like it she didn'tdidint like it - she didn'tdidint have a good time. This conversation helps support the theme because this is after Daisy attended Gatsby'sGatsbys party for the first

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