Green Lights, Yellow Cars, and Church Steeples

        On the surface, the Great Gatsby is an entertaining novel demonstrating the luxurious and interesting lives of five connected people spending the summer on Long Island, NY. If this were the real Great Gatsby, the green light would be a simple port side market, the yellow car would be Gatsby's expensive way of transportation, and Nick's comparison to Kant would be a way of demonstrating the fact that nick was thinking about something. This was not F. Scott Fitzgerald's intentions with the Great Gatsby, however, and the book is more than an simple pleasure read.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald's unique writing style supplies the reader with innuendos instead of statements. This innuendos are only clues to the larger picture as a way for the reader to greater interprete the story. Subtle things such as the image of Gatsby reaching for the green light represent much larger things and in this case it shows Gatsby's reach for Daisy, his long lost love, the only connection to her being the light. Some readers may not understand these hints, but Fitgerald still gives the reader an entertaining story to follow. But for those who can connect the larger meaning, the book becomes an incredible representation and comment on the society of the 1920's.
         Fitzgerald's use of individual words in particular can supply the reader with a completely different idea of the story. Had Fitzgerald used the word privileges instead of advantages, the reader wouldn't have been able to understand the higher class nature of Nick's childhood. The Great Gatsby is not only a brilliant work of the early 20th century, but a large connection of smaller hints in order to both intrigue and compel the reader.