The color green is one of those colors that you cannot miss. Whether it's money in someone's pocket, the green lawn a family sits on having a picnic, a four-leaf clover filled with lucky blessings, or fire green at the end of Daisy's dock. Green is a strong symbolic color that represents desirable but unattainable things and is depicted throughout The Great Gatsby. “Involuntarily I glanced out to sea - I couldn't see anything except a minute's green light and in the distance it could have been the end of the quay. » (21, Fitzgerald). When Gatsby is first introduced in The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the book's narrator, sees his neighbor Gatsby on a dock, mysteriously reaching out toward that green light just across the lake. The narrator and Gatsby know that the light is so far away that it cannot be grasped. The question is: is it really just the green light he's looking for or is there something more behind that green light? If the color green represents something unattainable and desired, does that mean he wants the green light, but can't get it? Coincidentally, the green light is part of a dock owned by Tom and Daisy Buchanan; what the book ultimately explains is that Daisy and Gatsby had some sort of significant relationship in the past. An obvious symbol present throughout the novel, the green light represents something more that Gatsby desperately wants and is willing to fight for. When Gatsby was younger, he and his parents owned an infinitesimal amount of possessions and Gatsby sought to change that. Throughout the book, it remains a mystery how and when Gatsby acquired all of his wealth; however, there are some clues that suggest he got all his money and treasures from middle of paper... life formed now immediately and the decision must be made by some force of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality, at your fingertips” (151, Fitzgerald). Everyone has a desire for something, and in one way or another, it almost always involves money. Even though the green light does not directly have to do with money, the person who possesses the green light is looking for a rich and luxurious life. The novel teaches us that to belong to a certain class or to impress others, it may be necessary to have money. Ultimately, in The Great Gatsby and in life, the things we strive to achieve or achieve are represented by green, whether in the form of money and wealth or in the green light at the end from Gatsby's Wharf. elusive lover, which leaves the reader pondering two questions: what is your green light? and how far are you willing to go to achieve it?