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"And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." (9.152) F. Scott Fitzgerald used imagery to allow the readers to visualize Gatsby reaching out to the light for a last time before the novel ended. It's noted that Gatsby's dream "was already behind him" meaning that the dream was impossible to achieve, but he still stood there and continued to strive for it until he died.

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"But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock."(1.152) F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the imagery of what Nick was seeing to show Gatsby reaching out to the green light. In this novel the green light is Gatsby's desires and dreams he is striving for. In. this case it was wealth and love (Daisy).

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"A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: 'There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.'" (4.) F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the imagery of words repeating in Nick's head over and over again to explain that there are only the ones who's dreams are reached, the ones who are trying to reach them, and the ones who end up exhausted. In the end Gatsby is the exhausted because he ended up dying along with his dreams that didn't get pursued.

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A man named Nick Carraway moved to the East Coast for work. In a close town, Nick meets up with his cousin Daisy Buchanan, her husband Tom, and Jordan Baker. Nick meets Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson who is married to Myrtle George Wilson. Nick  meets his next-door neighbor, Jay Gatsby, who is a mysterious person no one knows much about but is known for throwing big parties. Nick starts to have a relationship with Jordan and then finds out that Gatsby and Daisy had a thing for each other five years ago. Nick arranges for Daisy to come over so that Gatsby can "accidentally" drop by. Then Daisy and Gatsby start to have an affair. Tom and Daisy go to one Gatsby's parties and they are disgusted and suspicious about what they see.We find out that Gatsby is really James Gatz and was raised by a family of poor farmers. He created the Jay Gatsby persona by being ambitious which made him successful.

Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan have lunch together. During the lunch Daisy and Gatsby are planning to tell Tom that she is going to leave him, but then Gatsby feels uncomfortable doing this in Tom's house. Then they go to Manhattan to do it. They all get a suite at the Plaza Hotel and Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy is in love with him. Tom tells everyone that Gatsby is probably a criminal and that's where all of his wealth comes from. Gatsby wants Daisy to leave Tom for good and tell him that she never loved him. Daisy can't do it because it wasn’t true and it ruins Gatsby. Her and Gatsby's relationship is done and she stays with Tom. That night, Daisy drives her and Gatsby home and runs over Myrtle by the Wilson gas station because she ran in front of the car thinking it was Tom. Tom tells George Wilson, the owner of the gas station, that the car belongs to Gatsby, and George concludes that Gatsby is Myrtle's lover as well.Gatsby takes the blame and waits for Daisy to change her mind and get back with him. Nick breaks up with Jordan because she doesn’t care about Myrtle's death.

Gatsby tells Nick more about himself. He was an officer in the army and he met and fell in love with Daisy, but after a month he had to fight in WWI.  Gatsby has been wanting to get back with Daisy since he shipped out to fight five years before but, two years later, when he was still fighting, she married Tom.The next day, George Wilson murders Gatsby and also kills himself.Nick tries to get people to come to Gatsby's funeral, but Gatsby’s “friends” didn’t want to go.Wolfshiem also didn’t want to go to the funeral. He explains to Nick that they have been partners in many illegal activities. Gatsby's father comes to the funeral and shows Nick a plan to improve himself that Gatsby had written for himself when he was younger. Nick then returns to his home in the Midwest.

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The green light in The Great Gatsby represents Gatsby's hopes/dreams. In the novel, Nick sees Gatsby at the end of Daisy's dock with his arms stretching out to the light. By the end of chapter 7 of the novel Gatsby is said to be "watching over nothing" and this symbolizes how he chased his dreams and he ended up not obtaining them.

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In The Great Gatsby,  F. Scott Fitzgerald expresses through imagery that for many the American Dream is about materialistic things and for those who think that way, the American Dream can be unattainable. Some people will try their whole lives to strive for those things and they end up exhausted and worn out, in worse shape than before.