F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, a novel about a tragic, lonely relationship. While the novel can certainly be seen as the story of one man, Gatsby, it is actually about the struggles of himself and his personal goals. Fitzgerald uses the green light on Daisy Buchanan's dock to illuminate inner meaning beyond what is actually physically. The green light represents the needs and desires that people had in the 1920s and continue to have today. In the first section of The Great Gatsby, chapters one through three, the reader is introduced to Jay Gatsby. In the first chapter, Jay Gatsby is described by Nick Carraway, the narrator, as “…everything for which I have a sincere contempt. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something wonderful about him, a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away” ( Fitzgerald 2) . This description of Gatsby simply explains through Nick that Gatsby lives, or is attempting to live, a rich and lavish lifestyle that many lower class people strive to achieve and achieve. Since Gatsby is not originally from the upper class, it seems to Nick that Gatsby is full of fear and is a sensitive person when dealing with dangerous situations, such as rejection. “…he stretched his arms out into the dark water curiously, and no matter how far away I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I looked out to sea – and made out nothing except a single green light, tiny and distant, which might have been the end of a pier” (21). With this quote, the symbolization of the green light... in the center of the card... he had always wanted makes sense. The American dream of those who move from the lower or middle class to the upper class is very difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. It was like this for Gatsby. Although he came from a poor family, he temporarily managed to work his way up to the upper class by bootlegging. Gatsby had innocently fooled himself into thinking that he belonged to a much higher class than he was born into, simply because the woman he thought was the love of his life was of a higher class and he feared the thought of being rejected by her. The green light on Daisy's dock clearly has a greater purpose than simply being a green light on a dock. It has a much bigger and deeper meaning that everyone from the 1920s to today can relate to, and that means being successful in life when it comes to money, relationships and social rankings..