--Nick says that Gatsby 'had come a long ways to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close...". (p. 189)  And he had. Fitzgerald, through Gatsby, tells us all Gatsby had gone through.

     "In his blues gardens men and girls came and went like moths..." (p. 43)  In these two quotes, there is one common idea: blue.  Blue is a color of sadness and in the end a sad thing does happen in that garden.  Wilson kills Gatsby in this garden that he had come so far to get his dreams.  Then Wilson shoots himself in that garden.  And, just like in his parties of people coming and going, they come and go after his murder.  People come to see what happened to Gatsby and his parties. 

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