【正文】 and Coleridge’s albatross in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” All these concrete objects or places carry within them a wide range of associations that stand for something so ineffable it would spoil the magic to explain it. Symbolism, therefore, is an integral ponent of fiction, because it enriches the narrative by pulling its message down to the level of our unconscious and anchoring it there.Ⅲ. Symbolism in The Great Gatsby Symbolism in colors GreenGreen is traditionally represents spring or hope, and green reappears several times during the book, it symbolizes hope or a new beginning.I didn’t call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms towards 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, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.（Fitzgerald ，2022:16）In The Great Gatsby, the most noticeable image is the green light we see over and over. So ends the first chapter of The Great Gatsby and brings to our attention the first symbol in this book—that mysterious green light. In our first acquaintance with the light, we see Gatsby reaching out for it, almost, in a way, worshipping it. We find out later that this green light is at the end of Daisy’s dock, and is a symbol for Gatsby’s dream and the hope for the future. The green light is a multifaceted piece of symbolism in the book.The green light is only a green light, but to Gatsby it bees the embodiment of his dream for the future, and it beckons to him in the night like a vision of the fulfillment of his desires. Gatsby has made Daisy a symbol of everything he values, and makes the green light on her dock a symbol of his destiny with her. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is the source of his romantic hopefulness and the meaning of his yearning for the green light in Chapter One: the object of his hope, the green light toward which he reaches. That light, so mysterious in the first chapter, bees the symbol of Gatsby’s dream, his love for Daisy, and his attempt to make that love real. The most obvious interpretation is that the light is symbolic of Gatsby’s longing for Daisy. However, that is too simplistic, Daisy is part of it, but the green light means much more. It is one of the most important symbols in The Great Gatsby and can be interpreted in many ways. The author leaves the precise meaning of the symbol to the reader’s interpretation. Many critics have suggested that, in addition to representing Gatsby’s love for Daisy, the green light represents the American Dream itself. Gatsby’s irresistible longing to achieve his dream, the connection of his dream to pursuit of money and material success, the boundless optimism with which he goes about achieving his dream, and the sense of his having created a new identity in a new place all reflect the coarse bination of pioneer individualism and uninhibited materialism that Fitzgerald perceived as dominating 1920s American life.Gatsby believed in the green light, the iastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther…And one fine morning—so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ( Fitzgerald, 2022:115)These words conclude the novel and find Nick returning to the theme of the significance of the past to dreams of the future, here represented by the green light. Nick remembers the night he saw Gatsby stretching his arms out to the water and realizes that the green light he saw was the light at the end of Daisy’s dock, and muses that Gatsby—whose wealth and success so closely echo the American dream had already ended, that his goals had bee hollow and empty. Nick senses that people everywhere are motivated by similar dreams and by a desire to move forward into a future in which their dreams are realized. Nick envisions their struggles to create that future as boats moving in a body of water against a current that inevitably carries them back into the past.What’s more, the color green can also stand for the meaning “go”. As in a traffic light signal, most people associate green with the word and action “go”. It means Gatsby should jump into action for his dream in a second. The color green indicates a drive to strive ahead in life, to gain a better life. Gatsby changes his name, which allows him to start his life from scratch and make it more like that of God—all in the ultimate goal of attaining Daisy. “He knew he had a big future in front of him.(Karen, 2022: 181).” his father says about him. “Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this…(Karen, 2022: 182).” He tries his best to be a more successful people in society. From childhood Gatsby makes arduous efforts to bee a wellknown, highly venerable person some day. The color green implies that Gatsby will do everything to win Daisy back and nothing can prevent them from being together. It is Gatsby’s determination and hope. Gatsby believes that he chooses a right way and all the things will be the same as before. WhiteWhite is the color of innocence. It is how the girls, Daisy and Jordan, are dressed in the beginning before their true characteristics are revealed. Jordan Baker talks about Daisy, “She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville dressed in white, and had a little white car…” (Fitzgerald, 2022: 98)Fitzgerald is telling us that when Daisy was younger she symbolized innocence and purity. He also expresses that she had a “white girlhood on”. Before Daisy was