Symbolism In The Symbolic Gatsby

This is noticeable when he is talking to Nick. He thinks he can fix everything which we see when he is talking to Nick, “ ‘ I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ Gatsby said, and nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.’ ”(110). At this point in the novel Gatsby sees how close his goal is, but he feels that the only way to get Daisy is to repeat the past and ignore the present, so she can feel the way she did about Gatsby before she met Tom. All the characters in this book will do anything to repeat the past, and do not see all the opportunities in front of them. Yet they are living in the roaring twenties, when everyone was trying to move forward with there lives. This idea from society is ironic to the characters in the book, because society is taking advantage of these opportunities of being wealthy, getting jobs, and living in the moment. Ironically Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom are living in the past, trying to take advantage of of opportunities that have already ended, specifically with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, we know that Gatsby, the main character, is a mysterious man who doesn’t seem to show much personal growth throughout this book. Although, we do learn a lot about him through what the other characters reveal. We learn many different things about Gatsby through these rumors that it helps give us a better understanding of things.

     Gatsby’s expresses his character through his lies and rumors that were started. It also showed that he wanted the one

In life everyone strives to get rich, but is having an abundance of money always good? Sometimes people use money for personal benefits, sometimes it's for the benefit of others, but at times people with money use it to create their social status. In The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the idea of wealth is seen throughout. Jay Gatsby, who lives next door to Nick Carraway; the Narrator of the story, wants to be with his dream girl Daisy. Gatsby is wealthy and throws parties to impress Daisy. Daisy however, is married to another man Tom Buchanan. Throughout the story the people with money use it to create their social status. In The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism to convey, wealth causes people to assert

“He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly

People in America love to have a great deal of money. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby always wants to have money, and he finally gets it. Gatsby has parties to try to get Daisy to come to his house. Gatsby tell Nick to tell Daisy to come to Nick’s house without her husband. Gatsby finallys shows his big house off to Daisy and thinks he will win her love back again just because he has money. Gatsby’s plan do not work out. Fitzgerald uses symbols in The Great Gatsby to show how things are going wrong in America.

Gatsby dreams an intangible world and constantly strives to sculpt his life in which his actions are manifestations of his desire to be wealthy. Gatsby’s identity is superficial, and Nick sees through this façade.

There are different identities that Gatsby creates for himself, with all of them relating to each other in the end. The identity that he creates for himself is a wealthy man, who lies about his history to get to the top. He appears to be likeable by most New Yorkers because so many people attend his outrageous parties that he throws. The reason Gatsby throws these parties is all for one person, Daisy, as he “half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night, but she never did” (80). Because she never attended one of his parties, he sought out Jordan Baker to help him find a way to get together with his previous lover. For years, he worked hard to become successful in his “business”. With all of the money that he gained from this, he “bought a house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (79). Gatsby hoped that Daisy would notice him and his wealth, and therefore, leave Tom. He believed that if he was perceived as the “better” man, she would go back to him.

Gatsby is a dreamer, he lives for and in his dreams. But his amazing ability to focus on and achieve his dreams makes him great.

Gatsby seems to thrive behind the lies people have created of him. He has no intention of even correcting these lies about himself. Even among a group of people, it would be difficult to pick him out because even in the book, Gatsby “looked at me and smiled” from among a group of people (51). Gatsby blends with everyone and he just feels that no one should

No one besides Nick Caraway knows the true Gatsby. People constantly start outrageous rumors such as “…he killed a man once” (44) or “…that he was a German spy during the war” (44). These imaginary concepts intimidate many people, but in reality Gatsby is a beautiful cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure, that needed protection from the harshness of reality and so he hides in his imagination. Nick was the only person who saw Gatsby for who he truly was: a desperate sad boy willing to go to any lengths to keep Daisy—even taking the blame for a murder she committed. The Gatsby persona that is created by the imaginations of the gossiping population builds a wall between the people and the real facts about Gatsby since they refuse to believe anything but the extrodinary.

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.

      Gatsby's tragic flaw lies within his inability to see that the real and the ideal cannot coexist. Gatsby's ideal is Daisy. He sees her as perfect and worthy of all his affections and praise. In reality she is undeserving and through her actions, proves she is pathetic rather than honorable. When Daisy says "Sophisticated-God I'm sophisticated" (18), she contradicts who she really is. The reader sees irony here, knowing she is far from sophisticated, but superficial, selfish and pathetic. Gatsby's vision is based on his belief that the past can be repeated, "can't repeat the past? Why of course you can" (111)!  The disregard for reality is how Gatsby

Throughout the previous chapter character development is becoming prominent, and one is Gatsby who we can see is not like the other characters. Comparing Gatsby to other characters greed is not what changed Gatsby like the other characters but the loss of his family “after that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe- Paris, Venice, Rome- trying to forget something very sad,“ (Fitzgerald 65 and 66). He not only tried to drown his sorrows in riches from across the world but he started hosting the biggest and loudest parties in New York. On the contrary to his nightlife, he is always a gentleman with a smile that could end wars. However, there are moments where he is quite mysterious “he looked at his watch, jumped out, ahd hurried

Gatsby’s stubborn determination is his most admirable characteristic, as his sheer willpower is worthy of the utmost respect. Furthermore, I appreciate his simple, even ignorant, naivety. Related to that of a child, he can see no wrong with his own desires; therefore, he is willing to justify any means to obtain them. Finally, my adoration for this character is based upon his embodiment of an incorrigible dream, which he dares to reach beyond the stars to secure. Despite living in a cynical world of money and speed, he clings faithfully to his vision.