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“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end," (Fitzgerald 98).

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This shows the new image Gatsby has created of himself. The wealthy, hard working, and classy man everyone knows.

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“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete,” (Fitzgerald 110).

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Gatsby worked hard in his life so he could treat Daisy like she wanted to be treated. He finally has the chance to show her, but he doesn't know what will happen in the future.

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Gatsby looking at the green light is him looking at his hopes and dreams. When the green lights wanes, his dreams are close.

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“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 then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," (Fitzgerald 180).