Hope is not the only meaning this green light has. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a green light” (Fitzgerald 25-6). Gatsby himself… he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Gatsby associates this light with Daisy, and in essence, as long as there is a green light, Gatsby has permission to move forward and attempt to attain his dream- Daisy. This light symbolizes all of Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. ‘You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock,’” (Fitzgerald 98).
“‘If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,’ said Gatsby. Throughout The Great Gatsby, we read about the green light on Daisy’s dock. “This setting of the book shows a once lively place that has been covered in soot and ash from modern industry, a visual disgrace created by man.” In other words, man took a place of life and turned it grey, thus created a place of death, and creating the place where all of Fitzgerald’s character’s dreams end.
In a sense, the valley of ashes can reflect the theme that man destroys all that is good. “This is where Myrtle dies, Gatsby's dream dies, Nick's hope for something good dies, etc…” (mrerick). The grey of the valley of ashes represents an area without life, one without the vigorous colors of yellow and green. First of all, Fitzgerald’s use of color holds a lot of meaning in throughout the novel. The valley of ashes itself has quite a few meanings. Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.” (Fitzgerald 27). “…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 finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Eckelberg looks over the valley of ashes. Although it is there and ‘sees everything’ the characters don't pay attention to it,” (""). Not only does this billboard symbolize the watching eye of God and the materialistic desire for money, but it also represents, “the ignored conscience of the idealistic people. “But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground,” (Fitzgerald 28). The empty face represents the hollowness of people and their materialistic values. The gold or yellow rimmed glasses represent the materialistic desire for money, and superficial wealth. They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose,” (Fitzgerald 27). Eckleburg are blue and gigantic - their retinas are one yard high. Near the end of the novel, Wilson and Michaelis discuss the eyes of Dr. The eyes themselves can represent the characters in which they see. There is the underlying suggestion that he watches over everything that goes on around and in the valley, even as God watches over everything that goes on in the world. “But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. In The Great Gatsby, there is a plethora of meaning behind the billboard of Dr. Each character in The Great Gatsby can also be considered a symbol. Some of the lesser known symbols include the significance of colors such as in the valley of ashes and the green light on Daisy’s dock. Eckelberg, the valley of ashes, and the green light on Daisy’s dock. Some symbolisms are more well-known and better understood than others. Symbols are secret messages that are imbedded in the texts of literature.
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