Green, as in the green light on Daisy's dock — as viewed from across the bay by the wistful Jay Gatsby, self-made millionaire whose unreachable dream girl is embodied in that distant glimmer.

As Gatsby says in the book: "If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay. You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock." Been there, done that?

One hundred years after F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Great Gatsby," the novel's influence hasn't exactly dimmed. From illuminating the Empire State Building in green - as a wink at that ...

(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Bill Gates has made no secret of his love for “The Great Gatsby,” the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald in which a green light at the end of a dock ...

"The Great Gatsby," a century old this month, packs a lot into its 180 pages: love, death, money and the American dream, unfolding primarily, its narrator recounts, in "one of the strangest ...

Gatsby Tours have become popular ... "because they can picture that green light on that dock." Few of those mansions remain – most never survived the Great Depression, torn down to make room ...

Fans of the novel (and anyone who read the book in junior year English) will recall that the green light at the end of the dock is Gatsby's metaphor for his love for Daisy and his constant pull ...

the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock: "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us." This vintage dish would not have been out of a ...