The color green is one of those colors that can never be missing. Whether it's money in someone's pocket, the green lawn a family sits on enjoying a picnic, a four-leaf clover filled with lucky blessings, or the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. Green is a highly symbolic color that represents desirable, but unattainable things and is shown throughout The Great Gatsby. “Involuntarily I looked out to sea – at nothing distinct except a single green light, tiny and distant, which might have been the end of the pier” (21, Fitzgerald). When Gatsby is first introduced in The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the narrator of the book, sees his neighbor Gatsby on a dock, mysteriously leaning towards this green light just across the lake. Both the narrator and Gatsby know that the light is so far away that it cannot actually 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 it mean he wants the green light, but can't get it? Coincidentally, the green light is part of a dock belonging to Tom and Daisy Buchanan; that the book eventually explains 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 had an infinitesimal amount of assets and Gatsby tried to change that. Throughout the book it remains a mystery how and when Gatsby will acquire all his wealth; However, there are some clues that suggest that he got all his money and treasures through...... middle of paper... life has taken shape now immediately and the decision must be made by some force of love, of money, of indisputable practicality, at hand” (151, Fitzgerald). Everyone has a desire for something, and in some way it almost always involves money. Even though the green light does not directly have to do with money, the person who holds the green light is seeking a rich and luxurious life. From the novel we learn that to be part of a certain class or to impress others, money may be needed. Ultimately, in The Great Gatsby and in life, the things we strive to accomplish or obtain are represented by green, whether in the form of money and wealth or in the green light at the end of Gatsby's dock. elusive lover, who leaves the reader pondering two questions: What's your green light? and how far you are willing to go to achieve it?