The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald.F. Scott Fitzgerald wants to demonstrate that the myth of the American dream is fading. American values ​​of brotherhood and peace have been uprooted and replaced with ideas of immediate prosperity and wealth. Fitzgerald believes that the dream is no longer lived and has been perverted by greed and malice. The Great Gatsby compares America's dreams to Jay Gatsby's dream to show the errors found in both. Fitzgerald reveals that both dreams are complete illusions. Those who follow the dream are manipulated into believing it leads to true happiness when in reality they are led to death. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald illustrates his major themes through a perpetual use of an array of colors, particularly green. The color green has two main meanings in the novel. Fitzgerald uses the color green to symbolize Gatsby's hope in his quest to get Daisy, but he also uses green to symbolize America's obsession with wealth during the 1920s, and in both examples the novel illustrates that all affiliates are led to their inevitable downfall. ] stretched his arms out into the dark water curiously, and as close as I [Nick Carraway] was to him I could have sworn he was shaking. Involuntarily I looked out to sea - and saw nothing except a single green light, tiny and distant, which... it might have been the end of a pier." Fitzgerald constantly makes allusions to the color green throughout The Great Gatsby to insinuate a feeling of hope that relates to the color, especially for the character Jay Gatsby. The reader is introduced to the green light at end of the chapter or... middle of the paper ... able to show the relationship between Gatsby's dream and also the American dream. As a result, the reader is able to understand the main theme of the book reader is able to make the connection and understand that Fitzgerald aims to falsify the legend of the American dream. Although Gatsby achieves his dream, he ultimately remains dead and without hope of winning Daisy's love. Both, Daisy and the American dream object of infatuation, and both are an illusion. While Fitzgerald illustrates the death of Gatsby's dream, he also announces the death of the American dream to illustrate illness and death, at which point Fitzgerald used color to make the transition from the idea of ​​dream to the idea of ​​reality..