The Green Light

The Green Light. Of which this blog is named after. (for those of you who have in indeed read The Great Gatsby). In the case of my blog title, i didn't just pull it out of thin air, although, i wish i had! It comes from Nick Caraway's narration in which he means the Green Light just as simply as, The American Dream. Although, there is still some complexity to it. The Green Light is not just a figurative symbol, but it is also an actual physical light, that Gatsby is very fond of. Even though it is barely visible from Gatsby's West Egg lawn, The Green Light is located at the end of Daisy Buchanan's East Egg dock. The Light also is representing Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future. Starting in Chapter 1, Gatsby uses it in saying to reach more towards his ultimate goal of actually being reunited with Daisy once more, by reaching out of the darkness and towards the light. It might seem hidden to the casual reader, but since the American Dream is associated, in Gatsby's case, with Daisy, The Green Light is leans more towards that actual idea of Happiness, wealth, and most of all- love.

To me, The American Dream is impossible. (Sorry to put a damper on the somewhat happy subject!) But, getting what you desire is, however, more the possible. I just believe that sometimes people get side-tracked by the media nowadays, and we shouldn't be convinced that what celebrities on TV or what rap or hip-hop artists have as far as houses, cars, women, drugs, and dream-jobs is the American Dream! What do YOU believe the American dream is? Is possible? Or no?