... a green light, represented through both Daisy's dock's green light, and the color of the lawn, green upon blue, or false hope upon a mystery. This is where Fitzgerald points to the third weakness of the American Dream, its mysterious and enticing nature, in which the pursuer only realizes failure when it's too late. Gatsby finally realizes his failure and the Dream's failure ... asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morning Tribune, and waiting for the four o'clock train."" (p. 38) Although pomp and circumstance associates with these parties, Fitzger...

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