Across the novel, the green light at Daisy's dock grows beyond a dock lamp. What does it most strongly come to symbolize for Gatsby?

Nick says the oculist who put up Doctor T. J. Eckleburg's billboard may have gone blind or moved away, leaving the eyes to fade. What does that detail suggest?

Seen between the Eggs and New York, the valley of ashes accumulates symbolic weight as what?

The repeated grayness of ash, dust, and Wilson's surroundings comes to mean more than color. What does it suggest?

Gold and yellow cluster around Gatsby's car, parties, and luxury. What symbolic pattern do they develop?

Daisy and Jordan often appear in white early in the novel. As Daisy's choices become clearer, what does that whiteness suggest?

Weather repeatedly shadows major turns: rain at reunion, heat at confrontation, autumn after death. What does the pattern build?

In Nick's final meditation, the green light expands from Gatsby's hope to a larger symbol. What larger idea does it carry?

Color names such as green, white, yellow, gray, and blue recur rather than appearing once. What does that motif help the reader track?

A witness remembers the car that hit Myrtle was yellow, and Tom tells Wilson whose car it is. How does the showiness of Gatsby's car turn against him?

Watching recurs through Nick's narration, party gossip, and Eckleburg's eyes. What motif emerges?

In Chapter 1, Nick blames 'what foul dust floated in the wake of' Gatsby's dreams, not Gatsby himself. What does the dust image suggest?

The day of the Plaza confrontation is oppressively hot, and the characters keep noticing it. What does the weather motif build?

Lights across water, glittering parties, and glowing windows recur around Gatsby. What does the motif stress?

When Nick first sees Gatsby, Gatsby stretches his arms toward the green light across the bay. What symbolic effect does the scene create?

During Gatsby and Daisy's reunion, Nick notes that the green light may have lost its colossal significance. Why?

On the trip from Long Island to New York, Nick describes the valley of ashes before Tom takes him to Myrtle. What does this placement do?

After Myrtle's death, Wilson stares toward Eckleburg's eyes and says God sees everything. What effect does the billboard have here?

At Nick's cottage, rain falls while Gatsby and Daisy's reunion is awkward, and the sun comes out once it begins to go well. What does the weather do?

After the Plaza fight, Nick writes, 'So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.' What does the change in weather signal?

The bay separates Gatsby's West Egg mansion from Daisy's East Egg dock. What contrast does that water sharpen?

Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby only pass through the valley of ashes, yet Myrtle dies there under a car Daisy is driving. What does that contrast with the Eggs show?

Set against the ash-gray valley, Daisy's early white clothing works as a contrast. What does the contrast reveal?

Gatsby's flashy colors and huge parties differ from Tom's inherited East Egg ease. What contrast do those symbols draw?

Rain and sunlight shape Gatsby and Daisy's reunion, while the later Plaza heat shapes their confrontation. What contrast does the weather mark?

The green light is both a real lamp and Gatsby's private sign for Daisy. What does that double status suggest?

Eckleburg's eyes can feel godlike, yet they are only an old advertisement. What theme does that ambiguity support?

Gatsby arrives for his reunion with Daisy in a white flannel suit, a silver shirt, and a gold-colored tie. What does the outfit suggest?

Weather often matches mood, but it cannot solve the characters' conflicts. What does that limit imply?

Nick links Gatsby's green light with the old dream of a fresh continent. What ambiguity remains at the end?