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Related Characters: Nick Carraway (speaker), Jay Gatsby
Related Themes: Related Symbols: Page Number: 20 QUO QUOTES TES Get hundreds more LitCharts at www.litcharts.com ©2020 LitCharts LLC v.007 www.LitCharts.com Page 5 Explanation and Analysis Nick observes, for the Vrst time, Gatsby’s odd nighttime ritual: He looks out at a green light across the water. The “green light” is undoubtably the most famous symbol from Fitzgerald’s novel, and it has been interpreted in a vast number of ways—from an indication of his love for Daisy to a model for the roaring-twenties aspirations of Americans. Part of that ambiguity comes from the writing itself: Nick describes the action as “curious” and dilutes its certainty with the phrase “could have sworn”—as opposed to simply saying “he was trembling.” The phrase “that might have been” to describe the location of the light plays a similar mystifying role. Thus the text places several layers of uncertainty between the reader and Gatsby, which mirrors Nick’s experience in the moment. Despite these uncertainties, however, it is evident that the “green light” represents some kind of aspiration for Gatsby. That it is “single” stresses the directness of the goal, for Gatsby is not gazing at a general area but rather at a Vxed and unique point. As it lies “seaward” and at the “end of a dock,” we can infer already that water symbolically separates Gatsby from the goal—and that crossing that water will allow him to access it. Chapter 2 Quotes This is a Valley of Ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, Vnally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight. Download 0.5 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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