Green Lights, Yellow Cars, and Church Steeples

The 1920's was an era of new found freedom across the nation. Americans were innovative, and new inventions popped up daily. Everyone was working hard to achieve that American Dream, and the wealth that came with it. To Gatsby though, his American Dream was not wealth, for he already was as wealthy as one needed to be. Gatsby's American Dream revolved around Daisy, and the idea that one day, hopefully soon, she would love him again. Throughout the book, Gatsby's American Dream is represented by the green light that is fixed at the end of Daisy's dock. It represents the hope within him. When Gatsby reaches for the light in chapter 1, he is reaching for Daisy, and Daisy is all he really wants in life.