made specifically to be donated to veritas academy for a silent auction. each artist was to choose from a list of literature, and i chose the great gatsby.

Gatsby is a self-made success who builds an extravagant life during the Jazz Age. His life, and the lives of those around him, is one of materialism, hedonism, and consumption. At his core, Gatsby wants to earn the life of his long-lost love Daisy. At night, he looks across the bay to see the green light at the end of Daisy’s house’s dock. The last lines capture this saying: “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—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . . And one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

To Gatsby, the green light on the dock represents Daisy and the possibility, their future, the hope for love as he gazes across the lake from his balcony. It is a future never fulfilled, unrequited love; represented by the breadth of her light fizzling out before it reaches the boat.

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