![]() “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock” (Fitzgerald). “”If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,” said Gatsby. As a romantic hero, Gatsby commands Carraway’s admiration not because of the facts of his life, not even because of the fabulous rumors surrounding his life, but because of his. In the novel Gatsby is faithful to his dream but disdainful of the factual truth which finally crushes him and his dream. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness” (Fitzgerald). Fitzgerald indicates: “Involuntarily I glanced seaward-and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. The merely mortal work is styled a “son of God” not because of any literal fact but because of a poetic act which ignores rather than overcomes the gap between the Ideal and the real. Carraway’s characterization of Gatsby favorably invokes the highest of philosophical and religious conceptions, his comparison of Gatsby to Jesus must seem ironic to anyone familiar with the traditional doctrine of the Incarnation. Green light is a symbol of philosophy and knowledge.
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