Symbolism is used in literature to show a deeper meaning and to make it easier to understand the plot. In The Great Gatsby, symbols are mentioned to provide understanding, like the omniscient eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleburg, the Valley of Ashes, and the green light Gatsby finds himself interested with. The green light Gatsby reaches for at the end of Daisy’s dock represents his hopes and dreams and it symbolizes Daisy as his key to success, not only romantically, but financially and socially, representing the idea of the American Dream in the book.
The importance of the green light related to Gatsby’s version of the American Dream. When Gatsby first met Daisy in her hometown he was a young military officer. He fell in love with her grace, charm, and
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Gatsby sees Daisy with a romantic perfection that she can not live up to, and looks at her with so much passion that he sees nothing else but Daisy. As the story continues, Gatsby’s dream of Daisy leaving her husband for him was gone, showing how love changes and his failure in the American Dream. Gatsby’s dream is ruined by the unworthiness of his goals, like Fitzgerald sees the fall of the American Dream in the 1920’s, as America became corrupted by greed and materialism.
Failure of the American dream is shown when Gatsby is desperate to become rich. Gatsby sees money as the solution to his problems, he was born in the lower class and he is not as financially stable as Daisy is. Gatsby gets money through shady deals, through selling drugs and drug-related jobs. He changes himself so much that he becomes a new person and is disconnected from his past. Gatsby’s motivation for his dream of being rich is Daisy, he believes that she will choose him when he is rich enough to deserve her. But, Daisy chose the money over true love with Gatsby, so he made himself