Comparing how hope decays for Gatsby's character, but is renewed for EBB, their contexts are very heightened. For most people during the Roaring '20s, the "American Dream" was the catalyst of hope and that, through a busy life and illegal activities, they could achieve this goal faster. This idea is epitomized in the character of Gatsby; the "colossal vitality" of his dream centered on his obsession with Daisy. Fitzgerald cleverly symbolizes this decay of hope through the motif of the green light. Once described as America rising out of the water to prosper, it is ironically associated with Daisy who represents its fall and therefore loss of hope. The context is highlighted significantly as Gatsby's materialistic nature causes Daisy to 'not reach her dreams', this metaphor strongly represents how, due to the superficial nature of the 1920s, nothing can 'challenge what a man can accumulate in its ghostly heart. ”. Furthermore, the conclusion of the prose contains Gatsby's unexpected death; this is an effective communication from Fitzgerald to portray how the superficiality and materialistic nature of most individuals leads to the death of hope. EBB's Sonnets, however, testify to a progressive renewal of hope. The Victorian era was transitioning to new superficial ideals and so they existed