Symbols In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. It is recognized as the “Great American Novel” as it shows great wealth, partying, jazz music and many other aspects of the “American Dream”. In his novel, he displays a lot of symbols, and themes including wealth, greed, and the most vivid, betrayal. Betrayal can upset many people and ruin many people. Betrayal was demonstrated throughout the entire novel with a lot of connections. Three situations will be examined, and they will be: Gatsby betrayed by Daisy, Tom cheats on Daisy with Myrtle and no one attends Gatsby’s funeral.

The Great Gatsby has been around for ages; it is a story of a young man in the 1920’s who is thrown into a new world made up of the new and the old rich. He is confused by the way these people act and in the end cannot stay another minute in this strange, insensitive, materialistic world. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many techniques to help the reader understand how Nick Carraway (the narrator) is feeling throughout the story. In the book The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses effective language to make his writing successful. He uses the techniques of imagery and irony to display this message.

The Great Gatsby is a novel that was published in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in this novel he writes about the Jazz Age in language that marvelously evokes music. The Great Gatsby is a romantic and cynical novel about wealth and he portraits characters in the novel who maneuver themselves in complex or difficult situations. The character Tom Buchanan, is Daisy Buchanan’s husband, which Daisy is cheating on him later with Gatsby whom I’ll explain who he is in a bit, and also Daisy is the main character’s cousin. The main character is a man named Nick Carraway which in the novel he is telling the story in a second person point of view of Gatsby, who is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the big parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows what he does, what made his fortune, or where he comes from. In the novel Tom Buchanan is cheating on his wife Daisy for a woman named Myrtle Wilson who is married to a man named George Wilson, a lifeless man owning a run down garage in the Valley of Ashes. Tom Buchanan and George Wilson are more similar than different because they both got cheated on. They will be compared and contrasted on their attitudes towards women, their ways of showing violence, and their reactions of being cheated on.

Symbolism, a technique sprinkled through the book, is heavily used with organic material, such as flowers, gardens, settings, etc. gives characters a more natural feel and being more organic themselves. Each scene that is given a natural setting, where it isn’t forced, shows the realist and most raw form of the character.  Gatsby and Daisy are the subjects that can be examples as two people that act differently in different settings of natural surroundings. The main focus is how they act in the most natural setting possible. Daisy and Gatsby knew each other before, sharing intimate moments, the first moment “...he kisse[s] her.  At his lips’ touched she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” (117). Fitzgerald's vocabulary use in the quote is saturated with liveliness and beauty. The words give a feeling that the book is alive. Gatsby is opening Daisy up as a person. For him she can be a real person, not fake in a world where status matters. For Gatsby, she has

Daisy clearly demonstrates some feelings for Gatsby shown when she sees his mansion and shirts for the first time. ‘“They’re such beautiful shirts,” She sobbed”’(92). This quote demonstrates the moment of Daisy finally realizing what she could’ve had. She decided to marry Tom, because he was the most successful, but now Gatsby is wealthy. It was apparent that the wealth

"They're such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her muffled in the folds. It makes me sad because I've never seen such beautiful shirts. (P.92)." Daisy shows her greedy and materialistic side on many occasions. One of which was when she was at Gatsby’s house and he was showing his shirts to her. Daisy broke into tears. Jay thought it was because she was happy to be reunited with him but that wasn’t the case. Daisy cried over the shirts because she was happy with Jay’s material wealth. She loves how he is throwing his riches towards her. Gatsby’s shirts were emotionally satisfying to

The Great Gatsby is an extraordinary novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who tells the story about the wealthy man of Long Island named, Jay Gatsby, a middle aged man with a mysterious past, who lives at a gothic mansion and hosts many parties with many strangers who were not entirely invited. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many characters are discussed uniquely to an extent from the festive, yet status hungry Roaring Twenties. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald introduces many characters who all seem to cause conflict with each other because of incompatible personalities. The main character that F. Scott Fitzgerald sets the entire book over is Jay Gatsby, Gatsby, is first shown as a mysterious man whose

F. Scott Fitzgerald used a lot of symbolism in the Great Gatsby. Names, colors, seasons and even the weather have something to do with symbolism. THis topic will be about explaining and evaluating symbolism in the book.

Many different symbols can be found in The Great Gatsby, but the symbol I chose to examine is the green light. Located at the end of East Eggs dock a green light can be seen from the shores of West egg. This green light, to Gatsby, symbolizes his hopes and desires to one day reconnect with his love Daisy. The first interaction seen with this green light and Gatsby is at the very end of chapter 1, “—he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling” (20). It can be inferred that the trembling may be him crying. The trembling and outstretched arms show how much he longs for Daisy, his dream is to be with her. Later in the book we find how deeply his obsession

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby he uses a lot of symbolism in his writing. Fitzgerald uses many symbols/ colors to represent different things and also sometimes uses things that will foreshadow later in the novel. In The Great Gatsby a man named Jay Gatsby leaves the love of his life behind to go to war for five years hoping to find her again when he returns. Daisy, his love; could not wait that long not knowing when he would actually be coming home so she waited no longer and did her own thing only to be marry Tom Buchanan. Upon Gatsby’s return he comes back to find her and can’t only to find out that she is now married and on her honeymoon leaving him heartbroken. He knows his neighbor Nick is Daisy’s

The Great Gatsby is one of the most read pieces of literature throughout the current modern Western world. High school kids all across the globe must learn and read it as part of their curriculum. One of the aspects that makes this novel so notable is that Fitzgerald, at no point in the story, needs to convey to his audience the theme of his novel directly. The main points of his novel are brought out by the powerful symbols he infuses in the book. Not only does he use them to convey his theme, but also ties them in to the rest of the story. Every aspect of this book is affected by the presence of one of his symbols. Through the use of the green light, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, and the Valley of the Ashes as symbols,

The book that i am reading is The Great Gatsby by F . Scott Fitzgerald. In The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald he shows different symbols in the book the symbols that he show is the library where nobody read the books because they aren’t real and another symbol the use in “The Great Gatsby “ is the Valley of Ashes which the book describe as a `dark gray place and many more but the symbol that i want to use is the green light which is mention more than once in the book When I was first introduced to the green light(in chapter 1) one of the main character Jay Gatsby was standing on his lawn and another main character name Nick Carraway noticed him standing there and thought he was daydreaming on just staring at the stars. After it was

People can often change their minds to do anything if correctly persuaded. Similarly to this great writers can get the readers to not only to go deeper than just following along with the story. One example of this is The Great Gatsby, it is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the American Dream and true happiness. Fitzgerald is a very convincing writer and uses many tactics to convey what he is truly trying to say. He uses three important symbols in The Great Gatsby to effectively work to enhance the true meanings of the plot and characters.

It also foreshadows that Gatsby’s death will be due to an event that Daisy is heavily involved in. Even so, Gatsby dedicates his whole life to her. His acquisition of wealth, the purchase of an extravagant mansion across from Daisy, and his lavish parties are all done in a tragic and naïve attempt to draw her back. Through his obsession, Gatsby fixates his desire for her around materialistic views and his love is distorted by the obsession that grows from this. During chapter seven Gatsby’s obsession reaches an all-time high when Nick says that “the whole caravansary fell like a card house at the disapproval in [Daisy’s] eyes.”

A symbol in literature is when an object or idea is given a deeper meaning than what is literally there. It may add context to a story. Symbols often include figures of speech, objects and places mentioned in the story, and actions of a character. Symbols are very important when adding meaning to a story and create more depth to the plot. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many symbols appear throughout the novel. Fitzgerald deftly uses the billboard, the valley of ashes, and east and west egg as symbols to advance his plot and enhance the quality of the novel.