Why Is The Great Gatsby Green Light

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I choose the green light because it represents Gatsby’s love for daisy. In the movie the green light flashes multiple times across the water which fuel gatsby even more to pursue and love Daisy. Daisy is like a huge pot of pollen and Gatsby is like the bee, the green like is the spell the taste the flower and Gatsby keep seeing it so it makes him crave Daisy and wakes him want her. The way I make my book cover was the house on the other side of the river, east egg, and the dock on west egg. I believe the light isn't actually coming from daisy it’s a floating bowie that right in front of Tom and Daisy’s house. It shines and glimmers but Gatsby thinks of it not as a water bowie but a love signal from daisy or something. Everytime he sees the

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