The Symbol Of Bobby In The Great Gatsby

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

Another symbol is Just Frank, who is an old guy that stayed at the corner in the apartments. He would tell Bobby that he needed to change if he wanted to become a man. One night Just Frank was killed while trying to help a girl from being dragged into an alley by an idiot. Frank trying to help the girl was being a man. Bobby wants to be a man like Just Frank. He wants to be someone’s hero and make a change. “I went to his funeral at Zion AME, then walked home and held Feather for the rest of the night, wondering if I would be a man, a good man” (Johnson 7). This quote from the novel shows that Bobby wants to be like Just Frank and be a man.

This is one of the reasons I think Bobby has come of age. In the nextparagraph i'm going to tell another reason how Bobby has come of age.""The second reason to how Bobby has come of age is he is losing his old identity andgaining a new one as he is coming of age. In the book "The First Part Last" he spray paints awall. This wall symbolizes all his positive memories from being a kid all the way to when Featherwas born. Then Johnson goes on to say, "Finally it's just me and that thing in the baby carrierwho doesn't have a face" (pg.60). In this chapter he wants to find the baby's face but he can't. Ina few chapters after that Angela says "I climb the stairs and think about holding her, or maybeI'm really thinking about just holding on to her"(pg.75). He realized Feather is the missing piece inhis life and he wants to keep it that way and not lose her. He needs to lose his old partying anddoing whatever he wants identity and get a new mature and father like identity in order to dothat.This has to do with Angela Johnson's discussion regarding coming of age because he has tochange so much to be mature it's like he's gaining a new identity and growing up.This is anotherreason I think Bobby has come of age.

Bobby will be coming of age and symbolizing his coming of age is a balloon. A balloon is the best thing a child could get for a gift. On Bobby's 16th birthday his girlfriend Nia arrives to his house with a red balloon and some news. Nia tells Bobby that she is pregnant. So the gift of a balloon represents Nia's childhood and she is giving it away. It is also red, and red can symbolize a few different things. Red is the meaning of love, anger, and fear. Nia is giving her love to bobby, but she fears what is going to come, and angry that this is happening to her.

My final example of a symbol that symbolizes bobby coming of age is when nia used the ballon to represent there life being striped away because of the relationship with childhood and balloons.

This symbol is important because he was upstairs in his house and was sitting down, he sat down and put his ball on the floor. He didn't touch it he didn't push it. He just put it on the floor and it started rolling. He figured that was a sign of his childhood rolling away now that he has a kid. Feather is growing up and he is becoming more and more responsible everyday with her. This symbol is very important to Bobby, he stood up and grew up. He is now raising Feather on his own learning more about growing up and being an adult at such a young age..

Nia (bobby's girlfriend) hands him the balloon containing the symbol of innocence, as she reveals a shocking surprise to bobby, that she's pregnant. bobby will soon be a father and will face something he did not want to deal with, Nias pregnancy. Now he knows for certain that it's time to grow up and start acting like a father instead of a child.

The greatest and first object/symbol is the basketball on page 23. “I lay my basketball down and it rolled out the door into the hall toward Mary’s room,” (pg 23) A basketball does not roll away if it just gets laid down. The basketball normally stays where it is at that moment. The basketball represents Bobby’s childhood because a basketball is greatly associated with children.

One symbol would be when Bobby forgot Feather to go play basketball. The symbol here is the basketball. When he got home, Bobby set the basketball down and it rolled into his mothers room. The symbol for this is that the basketball is his childhood. I think that Bobby forgot Feather because he

In the book(page 22-25), Bobby has a basketball and forgets about his baby named Feather. When he goes to put the basketball down on the floor, it rolls away from him. This is a symbol of Bobby’s teen and childhood going away. The chapter also talks about him going to go play basketball. Going back to the basketball rolling away, this part means that he cannot hangout with friends anymore. The ball rolls over to his mother’s bedroom door meaning that Bobby has to start acting like a parent and not a child. That is why the basketball represents Bobby coming of

The red ballon is a symbol that his child hood is pretty much over he is going to be coming of age. will be a father soon. Bobby is not ready to be a father because he is still just a kid just like Nia. Both are still going to school as well in other words they are in deep water.

“The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness” (Nikos Kazantzakis). The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, follows Nick Carraway through a sinful journey of lust, greed, and pride. The novel encompasses all evils of human life, showing readers that there will be consequences if they follow this evil path of riches and secrecy. In the novel, God is represented with a billboard depicting a pair of an optometrist’s eyes, looking down on the morality of human civilization, and watching a metaphorical evil showly corrupt the world. The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg is the most important symbol in The Great Gatsby, simulating the idea that material gains have no real purpose in life, and that everything and everyone will always succumb to the great overseer known as God.

Feather, Bobby and Nias baby, symbolizes Nia. Bobby says "and now i look at her and see Nia". Feather looks and reminds Bobby of Nia. Although at first Nia and Bobby said they may put her up for adoption, Bobby wouldn't let her go. "Even though im not set up for her, shes mine" says Bobby. Bobby realizes that he loves Feather because she reminds him of Nia. They are both very important to him. It was Bobbys fate to have Feather.

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,

F.Scott Fitzgerald portrays the majority of The United States in a predicament of alienation and exploitation. The first time this is observable in The Great Gatsby is when the narrator describes the valley of ashes quite vividly. ”This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash-grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” In this case, the ashes are representing poverty, and since these “ashes” cover all of the valley, we can assume that the author is reflecting upon the state of America. The workers are being exploited by the bourgeois