gREEN (GROUP 1)
He felt the hot, green leather of the street. 120 MS
And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.-GH
I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes — a fresh green breast of the new world. It’s vanished trees, the trees that made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood or desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder - GH
You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock… Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects has diminished by one.-GH
“…he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away…” RR
"In the sunlight his face was green." 123
This line is talking about George Wilson's appearance when Tom and the gang stop at his garage for gas. This is after George finds out that his wife Myrtle has been living a secret life. he is sick to his stomach. MS
This line is talking about George Wilson's appearance when Tom and the gang stop at his garage for gas. This is after George finds out that his wife Myrtle has been living a secret life. he is sick to his stomach. MS