The color of yellow, blue, white and red indicate the personality of Gatsby, Daisy and Tom. Grey builds the basic background tone of the whole novel, which indicates the disillusionment of the American Dream and helps us understand the main theme of the novel more easily and vividly.

Situated at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, the green light represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal.

Gatsby is an example of materialism because of Daisy. All his wealth and status was only for Daisy, because he hoped that one day he would see her and amaze her. His house is an example of this dream because it’s a synthetic place and was only built for Daisy.

Scott’s Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby. The novel makes a link between different symbols employed in the novel, the Jazz Age and The American Dream. The major symbols that the paper focuses on are: the green light, the eyes of Doctor. T.J. Eckleburg and The Valley of Ashes.

The main themes of The Great Gatsby include the American Dream, money, and death. The American Dream: As a self-made man who pulled himself out of poverty, Jay Gatsby personifies the American Dream. His unhappiness and eventual death signifies the end of the illusory American Dream.

Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.

“Gatsby,” “Invisible Man” and “Carried” were all banned on the grounds of sexual references and explicit language.

He is considered ‘great’ in a paradoxical sense. Gatsby is considered ‘great’ by the measurement of dreams, his wealth, his larger-than-life personality, the festivities and joviality that, to others in the novel, mark him as a man of high stature and almost god-like in personal proportions.