Symbolism In The Great Gatsby

Everything has consequences. Either positive or negative every microscopic event has an effect on the one yet to come. Jay Gatsby is a man of wealth and power, he is the man that men crave to be. A man that makes women lavish over him. How he got the this status is a different story, the gritty kind of story. His story was unnatural for the time of the roaring twenties.  He was beautiful, his house luxurious, his garden luscious, none of it was natural. More unreal then anything but never real. The palace has too many secrets, too mysterious, never real with anybody. Gatsby is living a dream. The American Dream, the unrealistic standard where everybody has the things they want, but not the thing they desire the most. So people live a constant lie that they are fine, and consequently its not real.  To be real is to be raw and to be raw is to be vulnerable to the outside world. Nature is the most vulnerable piece of life there is, when it’s not forced to be something it’s not.   The The Great Gatsby exemplifies the symbolism organic material to display the natural beauty of characters or inanimate objects which tear down the superficial walls of forced actions that Fitzgerald ultimately parades through the course of the book.

Just imagine everything that happens to people in life, positive or negative, someone was watching; or maybe someone has always had a lot of wisdom and mystery to share with people. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are two examples of symbolism that explains how someone was always watching over the characters in the novel and, another example of how one person had so much compassion for another. The two examples out of the many throughout the novel are Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and The Owl-eyed man. The novel has many reoccurring themes, two of the many are having wealth and a social status in society and what it means for a person, and how forgiveness and compassion for others is expressed in the novel. Symbolism is related fairly easily to the theme throughout the novel too.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is bursting with symbols and motifs. Looking deeper into these symbols will uncover the abstract and intangible themes and messages portrayed throughout the novel. The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock as well as T.J Eckleburg’s eyes overlooking the Valley of Ashes and the discrepancy between not only the characters of East and West Egg but the social class and standard of living they abide by. By uncovering all of these symbols and exposing them in their true light, a better understanding of the messages F. Scott Fitzgerald is revealing can be obtained. The confusion within the Great Gatsby can deciphered and straightened out.

The novel “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald was based upon a love/drama romance. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald uses symbols to represent something in a much deeper meaning. One of the main characters, Jay Gatsby can be described by many different symbols. These symboles tell a much bigger story than what they are actually read as. There can be a range of different symbols that Fitzgerald uses ranging from different colors to different locations. Both of them have a huge impact on how the audience interprets the meaning of the story. In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald uses different symbols to represent the different elements of the story.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby exemplifies his mastery of style in the portrayal of a segment of American society in the 1920’s. Fitzgerald introduces us to moneyed Northeastern society through characters primarily concerned with extravagant displays of wealth through bottomless supplies of champagne and opulent parties that might exist only in dreams. Fitzgerald brings the frivolity of the 1920’s to life through the experiences of his brilliantly imagined protagonist, Jay Gatsby. By skillfully employing vivid imagery and calculated metaphors, Fitzgerald draws the reader into the world of East and West Egg, where ostentatious, music-filled, alcohol-soaked parties illustrate how wealth endangers the formation of meaningful

It is widely known that people bring happiness to one another, however in the 1920s, money was mistaken as a source to bring joy to one’s life. This conception led to the end of true morality and turned a person into someone selfish. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows this notion through a variety of symbols and themes. One of the dominant ideas within this novel is wealth, which represents the symbol: eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. The eyes symbolize the loss of spiritual values and growing commercialism in America. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the theme wealth creates a pathway to the corruption of morals, which is evident through the decisions and thoughts of the Buchanans and Gatsby, who are influenced by the eyes of TJ Eckleburg.

In The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald a multitude of colors represent symbols and characters throughout the novel. The color blue normally can represent a large range of emotions and feelings, such as depression, sadness, abuse, royalty, cold and calmness. Furthermore, blue relates to many objects in life, which includes water and the sky. However, Fitzgerald uses the motif blue to express the symbols of foreshadowing, Gatsby’s royalty, which is shown in his house and parties, and a representation of how Tom acts as a barrier in between Gatsby and Daisy.

Writers incorporate symbolism through colors to enhance the deeper meaning and message of their literature. Fitzgerald is one author that integrates multiple symbols in his work to reveal the truth about wealth, success, happiness, and overall the American dream in his book, The Great Gatsby. In this novel Nick Carraway who goes to New York in the 1920’s to pursue his career in the bond business. During his time in New York, he becomes drawn to the captivating world of wealth and materialism through his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, his cousin, Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan. Nick witnesses all the deceit and corruption in the world of wealth. He watches as his friends are consumed by their own illusions and impossible love and dreams. Fitzgerald denounces the idea that the American dream is impeccable and illusory through the use of colors of objects and characters in the novel.

Symbolism is used in an extraordinary way throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. From the Valley of Ashes, to East and West egg, to even Gatsby’s shirts, Fitzgerald symbolizes and alludes to many different themes throughout his story. For example, the Corruption of Society is a theme represented in some way by many different symbols within the novel, but most abundantly through Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes, the ambient green light across Long Island Sound, and Gatsby’s mansion. These metaphors either display the poor or the wealthy and each group’s actions and ways of life.

Recently I started to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. After reading the first four chapters, I was able to dig deeper into Tom Buchanan’s character as well as Jay Gatsby’s character. I was also able to decode some of Fitzgerald’s beautiful sentences and how he uses symbolism to describe Gatsby’s character.

The roaring 1920s was a pivotal time in history which the Great Gatsby captures ever so effortlessly. The novel explains the life of Nick Carraway after he meets his new idealistic friend Jay Gatsby. The novel paints a picture of the 1920s which was the era that the American dream slipped away. The novel is still relevant and shows the ever so present crazy love in the 20s. F. scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 and died in 1940. Fitzgerald was a short- story writer and novelist who was famous for his depictions of the jazz age. The novel starts with Nick Carraway who writing his story after he moves to west egg next to Jay Gatsby. Nick details how Gatsby is helplessly in love with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and how Gatsby would do anything to please her. The story also captures the essence of the roaring 1920s with the prohibition being lifted. As well as allowing the reader to dip into the 1920s era, the story also provides an abundant amount of symbols including, the green light, which represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Another symbol, the eyes of Dr. Tj Eckleburg, represent God and show the meaningless of the world which contributes to the theme, the decline of the American Dream in the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows the narrator, Nick Carraway, and how he is involved with many other characters lives. In the novel, Nick Carraway begins to understand the wealthy people of West and East Egg and realizes how greed and wealth can change an individual immensely. More characters like Daisy Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson, Jordan Baker and so many others have difficulty dealing with reality and are caught up in their lives. Symbolism in The Great Gatsby is well represented throughout the entire book. By using specific examples of symbolism like certain objects, Fitzgerald is able to describe the different dreams and realities of the individual characters in the novel.

Your average person in the 1920's strived to be successful. Much like many people do today. The difference however is that back in the 1920's people thought having money was the only way to be successful. Without the newest cars, glamorous houses, and beautiful clothes the american dream was not to be achieved. Following the war that ended in 1918 was the 1920's were dynamic. America was great and people wanted to live in its biggest cities such as Chicago, Boston, and of course New York. From the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald most characters are white-collared and only a select few are portrayed to be blue-collared. All of these characteristics are portrayed in the novel and hold a deep meaning as well. Now, lets dive in a little deeper into a couple of specific pieces of symbolism

After World War I, the unhurt America came into a brief era of unprecedented prosperity which Fitzgerald called it the "Jazz Age" and his The Great Gatsby is considered as a symbol of American Literature about the “Jazz Age”. The Great Gatsby is a short story happening in 1920s with a background of the New York City and Long Island which described a young poor man from the western United States named Gatsby who dreamed of getting really happiness and love through a personal struggle, eventually shattered dream and died tragically however. This essay vividly reflects the shattering of the "American dream" in the 1920s and shows the spirit appearance of the Great Depression American underclass in "wilderness era" with a high artistic achievement. By using the symbolism, it gets a great artistic achievement. This essay analyzes the symbolism on the aspects of colors, places, objects and other some.

The roaring twenties: a period of peace,of happiness, and of economic and social prosperity that spread throughout the United States. This could also be called “The Golden Age” in which the American Dream was easily attainable for anyone. Any time when the 1920s are mentioned, words like success, wealth, and opportunity pop up. However, F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author of the lost generation, believes that lying underneath the prosperity is a world of poverty and hopelessness. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald puts forth his sentiments of American society to demonstrate that this period of time was not at all full of euphoria. The 1920s was a decade where social class defined who a person was and determined their success in the world.