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AP Lit · The Great Gatsby — Symbol Analysis
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The Great Gatsby — Symbol Analysis

Choose one symbol from the novel and trace how its meaning shifts across the book.


The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock is the novel’s most sustained metaphor — at first a fixed, attainable goal, then, by chapter nine, a receding horizon that Gatsby never reaches. Fitzgerald introduces it as a beacon and ends with it as proof that the dream itself was the trap. Each time the light returns, the prose around it gets thinner, as if the words can no longer hold what Gatsby believes.

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