The great gatsby
...nsity of light increases as his hope seems to be realized. Gatsby is described as “ an ecstatic patron of recurrent of light ” His lights fail to go on one Saturday night. At this point he has achieved his ambition of bringing Daisy back into his life and he no longer needs these collective events to attract his love. This situation involving light, as always, creates an impression of hope and as Gatsby watches Daisy’s house and the light is extinguished we sense that his hope is gone. The third situation involving light is Daisy’s use of light Daisy, compared to Gatsby, acquaintances light with candles, a weak, fragile light that is easily extinguished. Daisy’s association with light links her to her emotional life. Her emotional life is like her candles: weak, frail and quickly extinguished. Daisy’s passion at times burns intensely and then in a flash disappears. This also links her emotions to her light and the candles are precisely as her emotions ar...