The Green Light Metaphor
"What's the green light? He is a very important metaphor in the book. Gatsby often reaches out his hands to the bay in the balcony on the second floor of his mansion, as if to embrace something. What to embrace? There's a lighthouse on the other promontory across the bay and it has a green light."
"That green light represents a dream of his. He often thought about this dream, he wanted to reach in that direction, he wanted to embrace it, he held out his hand straight ahead. Is the light far away? I'll stretch a little further. Can't I get closer? I tried to swim closer and row closer, but this wave, this wave, would keep pushing us back. That is to say, the last dream, we finally can not achieve, we are still far away from it. This kind of ending illustrates the most important point of the novel, which is that all our dreams, in the end, abandon us and remain far away. We have been pushed very far back by the tide of our time, by the society, by the irreversible fate."
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