C.+Gatsby+Essay

Shana White A2   “You wan to hold on to your dream even more when times are hard.” (Seelye 1) This is very true. In the book, Jay Gatsby wants to hold on to his dream, loving Daisy, even when she goes off with Tom. This dream is the only thing he has in life and he doesn’t want to let it go. He feels like if he lets his dream go, he will be letting his own life fade away. “I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.” (Fitsgerald   21) Gatsby has an obsession with this green light. This green light is his dream. In the article, Gatsby ould be represented by the deepest recession. Even though he has money, he lost the most precious thing to   him, the green light, which was at the end of Daisy’s dock. Gatsby believed in his dream just how Americans in the article believed in theirs. They didn’t want to give up. The Americans held on and fought even harder until the last straw. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” (Fitsgerald 180) Gatsby believed his dream would come and progress through the days. He was one percent of the thirty one percent who expected to attain it in his life time.