" (110). Here, it becomes less obvious what Gatsby has in mind, however the reader still knows that is it and always will be Daisy and the "single green light, minute and far away, at the end of a dock" (21). .
Into the present, once Gatsby and Nick become more than acquaintances, Daisy shows up more frequently. After their first meeting Nick looks back at Gatsby and sees, "that the expression of bewilderment has come back into Gatsby's faceto the quality of his present happiness" (95). Due to his increased happiness at the sight of Daisy, Gatsby finds more hope in seeking her final approval. He continues to "believe in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us" (180), however "glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past" (149). This objective that Gatsby has reflects over the entire novel with the use of the "green light" that continues to motivate him, after all it is all he has. Fitzgerald describes him as a "penniless young man" despite his rich fortune; emotionally he fails to develop which is why he is a man "without a past". This is strikingly significant to the novel because though Gatsby has the money, he has nothing else, which has quite literally cost him in the game of life. Furthermore, leaving him only dreams and the "green light" to guide him. .
As the "green light" continues to motivate Gatsby, it is not the only thing green in his life. The Sound, which is the lake, is also green and Nick describes it to be "a fresh, green breast of the new world," where the "greatest of all human dreams," lay and in its presence it "compelled an aesthetic contemplation he (Gatsby) neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder" (180).