"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us" pg 180.
This quote further proves that despite all the troubles and set backs Gatsby had to take nothing ever stopped him from chasing his dream, from chasing Daisy. Even though in the end it did not quite work his way.
Gatsby had his bright yellow car that represented wealth, but in a different way. Yellow seems like the cheap version of gold, he didn't have a golden car, but a yellow one. Gatsby was new money, and people that were new money tended to be very flashy and too grand and luxurious. It made people that were new money seemed less classy, as the simple yet refined people from old money. They weren't too flashy with bright yellow cars or other ridiculous shiny new things, they showed their wealth through a different way. They did not need to prove how rich they were, the way they carried themselves was a strong indication of the kind of people they were, they wore clothes that despite from looking simple on he outside the quality of those clothes might have been as expansive as buying a whole house. Even Tom uses Gatsby's car to poke fun at him, trying to show how truly ridiculous the car looks. The yellow car can also mean death considering that was the car that did hit myrtle and killed her.
The mentioning of Kant and his church steeple relates to the fact that Immanuel Kant was a real person who was a German philosopher. Kant said that he developed his theories on morality and reality while looking at a church steeple outside his window. This relates to the quote by giving Gatsby’s house meaning giving it this symbol of extravagance and luxuriousness and how it contrasts to the man who owns the house itself. Immanuel Kant created many texts involving religion and one in particular focusing on the idea of the visible and invisible church. Perhaps Gatsby and his house is suppose to somehow be an interpretation of that idea. That idea being that the invisible church is one’s morality and personal relationship with God and the visible church being the institutionalized church that people gather around and practice their beliefs in as a community. Gatsby’s enormous house can be a representation of the visible church what we see from the outside of who he is, which is the is extravagant luxurious person, this house where people gather in to party and wonder and talk about Gatsby. Gatsby himself can be the invisible church, who he really is underneath the materialistic things he possesses and the rumors, what his morals and personal beliefs are, which we know to be that he wasn't rich to begin with, he had to work hard and sell this idea of success through his newly obtained wealth. We also know that it was all for his real dream which was Daisy, to be with her once more .
