Fianl Parachrph - Green Light

Question 1

Opening sentence

Answer 1

• The most important symbol throughout the whole book is the green light.
• This is the light at the end of Daisy and Toms dock however to Gatsby this is his unattainable dream that he is always reaching for.

Question 2

‘Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one’,

Answer 2

• this is an important quotation in the novel as it encompasses Gatsby’s vision and the unattainable nature of his dream.
• For years, Gatsby has gazed at the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, imagining their reconciliation.
• In that sense, the light became symbolic of Daisy.
• She is no longer a human but a symbol of Gatsby’s hopes and desires.

Question 3

Topic sentence; what’s left of his vision

Answer 3

However, Gatsby is short to realise that he lost Daisy long ago,

Question 4

‘So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight – watching over nothing’.

Answer 4

• This returns to the vision of Gatsby presented to the reader by Nick in chapter one, Gatsby stood with his arms outstretched to the green light.
• With hindsight, we can now understand that Gatsby of chapter one was looking over nothing, the green light lost its significance long ago, back when Daisy married Tom.

Question 5

Topic sentence; Nick judgement

Answer 5

• Chapter nine is the closing chapter of the book.
• We see Nick pass his final judgements on each character and his thoughts on the upper class and Gatsby’s delusion,

Question 6

‘Gatsby believed in the green light.’

Answer 6

• Nick paints a picture of the green land of America as the green light shining from Daisy’s dock.
• When America was founded, it tried to distance itself from the class system, but the novel shows that the class structure still exists. Gatsby can’t escape his past.
• No matter how hard he tries to fit in with those from East egg, he fails to overcome the class barrier.
• Gatsby never had a chance of breaking the class system as it is the fundamental that America is based on.

Question 7

Conclusive statement

Answer 7

• The ‘American Dream’ is a con concept that people like Gatsby fall for due to its false sense of security.
• Nick shows us that Gatsby had failed to realise that his dreams had already ended and that his dream, of status through Daisy, was unattainable as it was rooted in the past.
• His goals had become hollow and empty.