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This painting by Frank Wilbert Stokes reminds me of the green light in F. Scott Fitzgerald's //The Great Gatsby//. The green light represents Jay Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. The light gives him the courage and strength to reach his goals. His goals reflect the American dream. The light could be seen as conceptualizing America. In //The Eighth of March--Island Ice, Greenland, 1894, Peary and Party near 6 p.m.,// there is a line of people that look completely worn out and don't have much left in them. There is one person walking back; Gatsby would not be this man. The human line is traveling to what seems like the only light left in the world; the future. Gatsby faces his hopes and would not turn his back to them. This line of people still push to get to the brighter sun and are determined to reach what they set out for and won't stop until they reah their goal.