The Rhetorical Strategies

Blog Topic #1: Rhetorical Strategies

• Symbolism: “...and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been the end of a dock ” ( Fitzgerald 21).
• Symbolism: “...the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes–a fresh, green breast of the new world” (180).
• Symbolism: “Mow it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished my one” (93).
• Symbolism: “ Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year receded before us” (180).

One of the most prominent symbols of the Great Gatsby is the color green, or the green light. Fitzgerald chose to add the green light as a centrifugal point of the story. The story often refers to the green light as the source of hope. It's can also be said that it ties with the money Gatsby used in order to coax Daisy into taking interest.. Gatsby, in his fervor for Daisy, often finds himself staring with the same fervor at the green light across the dock. The same green light can be used to symbolize Daisy herself. The color green was also noted when the Dutch first approached the land. Albeit a different time period, the “American Dream” still exists today as a drive and hope to many such as it was to those at the time period. Fitzgerald chose to open an close with the perennial green light as the focus of the book as this same green light can give new beginnings, but can ultimately lead to one's own demise like the one of Gatsby.