Themes - The Great Gatsby

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  • Themes
    • Light
      • "single green light"
        • "unattainable dream"
        • the "dream [that] must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it"
      • "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter – to-morrow we will run farther, stretch out our arms farther…." (9)
      • “…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.
      • "She shone before him like silver" - Norman Holmes
    • Religion
      • "I had one of those renewals of complete faith in him that i'd never experienced before"
      • "God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing"
      • ""You may fool me but you can't fool God"... Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg"
    • The America Dream/ Wealth
      • "I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them."
      • "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."
      • "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
      • "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and he champagne and the stars."
    • Time
      • "Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion."
      • "He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you... just as if it were five years ago." (6)
      • ""I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past.""
      • "I don't think she ever loved him."
    • Morality
      • "What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?" (7)
      • "It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete." (8)

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