What Is The Perfect Life In The Great Gatsby

For many years most of our society of America has been consumed with the idea of a perfect life or “The American Dream”. Fitzgerald uses the imagery of the green light and color to illustrate how Gatsby's inaccessible dreams and hopes consume his life and ultimately cause moral corruption. Gatsby lived his life constantly chasing his ideas and dreams of becoming important and successful. From the beginning he had his own plan in order to achieve his goals. During this whole process Gatsby meets a young girl named Daisy who changes his life forever. Suddenly Gatsby’s plans are much bigger and there is nothing stopping him from reaching his own American Dream and getting all that he has worked for. Gatsby represents a many people in our society

Fitzgerald uses things like the green light, the parties, the cars, the Valley of Ashes, and the relationships throughout the book in order to focus back on our own problems that we have with trying to live up to societies standards. The idea of a perfect life so called the “American Dream” is easy to become consumed with, but it's also easy to fall into the trap of chasing a dream that isn’t reachable. Gatsby struggles with this problem throughout the entire story as his idea of his perfect life grows bigger and bigger and eventually becomes so irrational it completely ruins his life. In the book The Great Gatsby, Gatsby represents a lot of people in the world who are chasing their own idea of a perfect life and how they can achieve it. Fitzgerald uses the green light to represent Gatsby’s hopes and wishes to reunite with Daisy. “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away…” (1) This is the first time Nick encounters Gatsby and sees him reaching out to

A somber and grey place located off of Long island in New York City. Lots of events take place in the Valley of Ashes that reflect the dark and broken side of the city. “This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” The valley of ashes represents the dirtier and less wealthy area of the story. Where the American Dream is lost in the obsession of the idea of being wealthy. A lot goes on in the Valley of Ashes and ultimately it ruins the life of multiple characters in the story. The American Dream is lost in the Valley of Ashes, but in reality the wealthier areas are just as broken and lost as The Valley of