An Analysis Of Leyeles Wall Street

Shareholder value revolution is a notion described in the book “Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street” by Karen Ho. Shareholder value revolution is a shift of focus of corporations’ managers away from serving the interests of all the constituents of the corporation towards serving the interests solely of a shareholder class. As it was described by Karen Ho, shareholder value revolution came about as a result of the inefficiencies created by the conglomerate wave in the 1960s. These inefficiencies caused the takeover movement in the 1980s that in turn reinforced the interests of shareholders. According to Ho (2009), “In this worldview, corporation exist for the sole benefit of shareholders, and any attempt to separate shareholder interests from those of the corporation was selfish and nonsensical.” (p.

However, in The Great Gatsby a witness says, “‘It was a yellow car,’ he said. ‘Big yellow car.’” (Fitzgerald 147), talking about the car that killed Myrtle. This shows that the colors yellow and gold are symbolizing how Gatsby and many others could not achieve the American Dream because of the corruption of the Earth, The rich and their dreams ultimately lead to consequences and death. This proves that the colors gold and yellow show the bigger picture of the reality of the green color of hopes and

The colors that Douglas uses in this piece which are, purple, gold, black, orange, and yellow, hold some meaning to them. Purple is associated with power, ambition, wisdom, and dignity. Douglas uses both light purple, which is used to show femininity, and dark purple, which can evoke gloomy feelings and is associated to spiritual fulfillment. Gold symbolizes divine, wisdom, and courage. It also evokes the feeling of prestige. Yellow is a warm color that is associated with energy, happiness, and intellect. The color yellow can be useful in attracting attention which can bring most of the attention to important elements. But the yellow that Douglas

F. Scott Fitzgerald weaves white and yellow to present a contrast between Daisy 's purity and her actual corruption by materialism.

In the book, it literally represents the color of certain objects, such as Gatsby’s tie and Dr. T.J. Eckleburg's spectacles. It is a spring type color associated with many materialistic objects in Gatsby's house, in The West Egg, showing the happiness and joy that Nick pairs with Gatsby. Figuratively, it represents money, a high social position as shown in parts of the book where Nick describes “the turkeys bewitched to dark gold” and “Jordan’s golden arms” . It is also used to symbolize luxury with greed shown when Daisy is referred to as the Golden Women. In contrast, yellow represents a fake color, symbolizing the downfall caused by an obsession for wealth and power .This is shown though Nick’s car, which is yellow, and is used to show his desire yet failure to be a part of New York’s social scene. Similar to The Valley of Ashes, the color gold, or yellow, represents the failure of the American Dream and hot it is represented as an unattainable and hopeless

One would often think of wealth or a high social status. However, it can be closely associated with Autumn leaves which die and decay. Therefore, yellow also symbolizes death and decay. Gatsby buys a yellow car to show Daisy he is wealthy now and that she will not lose her social status if she marries him. One day, Daisy is driving Gatsby’s car back home with him, “The ‘death car’ as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend” (Fitzgerald 144). The car was Gatsby’s yellow car that ran over and killed Myrtle Wilson. The author uses the color yellow to foreshadow death nearby. Another day, Gatsby was walking to his pool with a pneumatic mattress in hand, “Once he stopped and shifted it a little and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees” (Fitzgerald 169). This happens right before Gatsby is shot and killed by Mr. George Wilson. The note of yellowing trees foreshadows Gatsby’s death. The color yellow is used in “The Great Gatsby” to symbolize materialism and death. Fitzgerald uses colors to foreshadow events and hint at a larger meaning of an object.

Yellow represents money and greed but it peculiarly represents death as well. The color yellow can be seen at two of the deaths in the book. The yellow Rolls-Royce owned by Gatsby that killed Myrtle, it is discernible that yellow was involved with the death of Myrtle. Another way yellow is shown through death is when Gatsby walked past the yellowing trees that were on the way to his pool before he was killed by George Wilson. “Gatsby shouldered the mattress and headed for the pool. Once he stopped and shifted it a little and the chauffeur asked him if he needed any help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees.” (Fitzgerald p.169). This shows the color yellow playing a role in death once again. At the parties you can tell that yellow is apparent. The “yellow cocktail music” and the “girls in yellow dresses” are too ways that show that Gatsby tries to fit in with “old money.” Yellow or gold deals with the real money, gold of course, while green would be considered new money. It is also humorous that Daisy which is a yellow flower is also the most impure character in the book.

The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper is very unreliable. We can point out her unreliability early in the story when she mentions her ‘temporary nervous depression’. This statement makes her writings vulnerable to skepticism. Throughout the story we see how this illness may be affecting the mood of the narrators writings. Early in the story the narrator writes, “I’m sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is die to this nervous condition.” (Gillman, 1899). The diary of the narrator seems to be her only emotional outlet. This leads to her writings being very emotionally driven and unrestricted.

In the wake of the recent financial crisis, many commentators attempted to analyze the roots of the conflict from a political or economic perspective. Anthropologist Karen Ho, a veteran of Wall Street as well as an academic, attempted to understand the reason that Wall Street behaves the way it does in her 2009 anthropological study of American finance entitled Liquidated: An ethnography of Wall Street from a cultural perspective. The central paradox with which Ho begins her book is: " the economy experienced not only record corporate profits and the longest rising stock market ever, but also record downsizings," further concentrating the wealth in America (Ho 2009: 1-2). But how can corporations grow richer as the American public as a whole grows poorer? Corporations no longer view themselves as responsible for taking care of their employees, creating good products, or serving their original mission. Instead, the focus is on generating shareholder wealth (Ho 2009:3). Shareholders, not the larger public, have become the symbolic and real focus of firm strategy. The shareholder "symbolized and 'stood in' for the whole of the corporation and became the sole locus of concern and analysis" during the time Ho conducted her study in the late 1990s and continues to this day (Ho 2009:175)

For example, yellow and gold represented money and death. The color “gold” represented older money, gold currency. It has a happier connotation than yellow. Gold is authentic and traditional, unlike the newer “bills”. Examples of gold in the the novel included “With Jordan’s slender golden arm resting in mine.” (pg. 44), “I put my arm around Jordan’s golden shoulder” (pg. 77), and “we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey-turning, gold-turning light” (pg. 144). Yellow, however, is fake gold. It is a pretense, having no value. For example, “now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music” (pg. 42), “we sat down at a table with the two girls in all yellow” (pg. 44), and “Did mother get powder on your old yellow hair?” (pg. 111).

On behalf of money worship is daisy. We can notice such a detail, while Daisy wearing a white dress, clothes with several obvious copper buttons, carrying a small pen. To regain Daisy's favor, Gatsby bought a yellow sports car, and in his party ,the color of food looked mostly like yellow, in yellow dress, in my opinion, to become an aristocrat, his hair is going to become yellow . Yellow can be rich, light, but don't forget, the dead and fall of withered leaves in the autumn,a yellow season. From a deeper point of view, the yellow is not only on behalf of the United States has been very dazzling, but also implies that the United States, such as the fall of the United States dream, is difficult to avoid the end of recession.

Although, Gilman's short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, contains numerous symbols, the yellow wallpaper of its title emerges as the most dramatic symbol. The seemingly, harmless yellow wallpaper in the narrator's room takes on a larger than life obsession for the story's narrator. On a basic level, the wallpaper symbolizes the narrator's mental decline. Initially, she feels the unsightliness of the tattered yellow wallpaper is annoying and aesthetically unpleasing. She reveals her aversion to the wallpaper when she describes the pattern as, “One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin” (648). However, as her mental state deteriorates, her repulsion toward the yellow wallpaper heightens. In her worsening mental

In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the author portrays a story of a woman who is undergoing a horrific disease in the late eighteen hundreds. She is showing clear signs of what we would call depression today. Although Charlotte Perkins Gilman does explain a character undergoing this horrible disease, in this time frame, depression was unthought-of. Everyone believed there was nothing wrong with her. In fact, her husband even believed she was full of non-sense.

Throughout the novel, it can be seen that the most common color accompanying with Gatsby is yellow. With this color, the author skillfully implies what kind of outer self Gatsby intends to show before others. Yellow is the color of gold, which symbolizes money, materialism and high social position. First, yellow stands out as the color that represents new money and wealth acquired. According to Fitzgerald, “On week−ends his Rolls−Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains….The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher” (Chapter 3, Page 21). Fitzgerald uses gold, a vivid representation of yellow to symbolize the wealth gained by Gatsby and the immense desire for him to get even more and to show it off to the entire society. In the light of the following events, it is easy to see how Gatsby is blinded by his love for Daisy and therefore money. This evidence shows that he buys a large yellow Rolls Royce to show off his new money. The band at his party plays “yellow cocktail music” to show his fulsome way of living and life. Gatsby chooses the yellow color to decorate himself and his house to show that he has been one member of their class. As Gatsby thinks that Daisy has never loved anyone else any more except

The yellow book represents how art can have a profound and horrible influence over a person. Dorian followed the yellow book as if it were his bible. Allowing him to be completely influenced by it. All of these symbols are recurring symbols in the novel.