1. Symbolic Light and Colors in The Great Gatsby
The central conflict in "The Great Gatsby," (announced by Nick in the fourth paragraph of the book), is the conflict between Gatsby's dream and the reality that "the foul dust which floats in the wake of his dreams." Gatsby, Nick tells us, "turned out all right in the end"; the dreamer remains as pure, as inviolable, at bottom, as his dream of a greatness, an attainment "commensurate to man's capacity for wonder." ... Gatsby, Nick tells us, is "like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light." ... In his innocence, Gatsby of course sees only the pure light of the grail which he has "...
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