What Does Bobby Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

Bobby’s childhood, the basketball, rolled away. It left, leaving Bobby with only responsibility and hardship. If Bobby’s childhood left, then would there not only be the older ages. This shows Bobby has come of age by the end of the book.

In this novel will bobby become a man and or come of age? Bobby will become a man due to how he starts to act with feather like how instead of sending her into adoption he kept her as his baby . Also in the novel we see how bobby comes of adve as in the quote " you wanna go on a walk bobby,sure i grab feather get her ready and mary takes her from me" and she sees that he is now mature and she takes feather so paul and bobby can go on a walk. Finally another example of bobby growing up and or being a man is that he moved to heaven and or ohio to raise his baby in a better place. So these are some examples to show how bobby has become of age and this clearly shows that he is a man.

A quote that very well represents this is on page6 when the narrator said"then she handed me the balloon." This quote means that when Nia hands bobby the balloon to represent her giving him her virginity and her virginity represents her childhood being striped from her by bobby. And in response to Bobby taking away Nia's childhood Nia takes away his childhood because she expects Bobby to make sacrifices for Feather. And this makes Bobby upset because he can no longer be getting in trouble and he has to give up everything that he used to love to do in order to be able to be around Feather whenever she needed

Bobby loved to play basketball, and once feather was born he couldn't play it any more with K-Boy and J.L. When he gets home from school and picks up feather from the babysitter he always sees his basketball, and it bugs him because he can't just disappear for a while to play a game or two of basketball. The basket ball represents childhood because " I lay my basketball down and it rolled out thee door into the hall way towards Mary's room," (pg. 23). This is representing childhood because he is always seeing it slip away from his

As you can see, the previously stated objects that Bobby encountered, prove that Bobby did come of age by the resolution of this novel. The gameboy because he thought about looking for it, but decided not to. Which symbolizes that later on he gets to a point where he sees no reason in trying to remain a child. The basketball, represents how Feather grew up with Bobby as her parent because he properly came of age by the end.

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.

In conclusion, yes, Bobby is going through some hard times and we all have our days. Now we are all learning from our mistakes and we become better people from our mistakes cause we learn from what the consequences are. Bobby has become a more mature and "manly" and has started taking responsibility for his actions. I learned from this book that making mistakes is okay because in the long run we learn and grow from

THESIS- throughout the novel you can tell Bobby has matured because as they were getting ready to go to the park he remembered to grab feather this time.

Towards the beginning of the novel, there is a scene where Bobby is caring for Feather, his infant daughter, when his basketball rolls away from him, towards the door. This basketball symbolizes Bobby's old life, and his old responsibilities. Before he had Feather, Bobby would play basketball with his friends, and just have fun. Now, the responsibility of having a child has consumed all of his time, and when the ball rolls away from him, it represents his old habits and actions leaving his life. This supports

Greyfriars Bobby was known for standing by his owners grave when he died of disease on February, 15th 1858. Greyfriars Bobby stood at John’s grave refusing to leave even when it was in bad conditions. They tried to move him but in the end they gave up and made shelter for him. Also Greyfriars brought crowds of people to watch him sit and watch as he would leave for his midday meal. Sadly Greyfriars died in 1872

In the beginning, Nia decides to give Bobby a red balloon on his 16th birthday. While doing this, she says, “Bobby, I have something to tell you.” With this, some conclusions that are drawn are that the news is not positive, and it could mean a drastic change in Bobby’s life. Also, the red balloon has the potential to symbolize many other objects, including Nia’s childhood, innocence, children, and change that is yet to come. For example, since the news is likely about pregnancy, the balloon could represent Nia giving up her innocence and childhood to Bobby, since she has to give up her old life for new responsibilities that come with being a

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.

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

Individuals perpetuate false personas to such an extent that they are convinced into a state of false consciousness of reaching the American dream, ultimately, this facade leads them to their downfall, exposing repressed reality from idealistic lies. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes symbols to describe the hollow nature of each character’s deceitful persona, which comes to show the ultimate theme of downfall through the individual’s perception of the American dream. The use of gold as a mask for the colour yellow represents authentic wealth versus fake wealth, further developed though Jay Gatsby’s pursuance of the American dream. The colour white known for is purity and simplicity is denoted by Daisy Buchanan, a character who represses the reality in which she lives, insinuated by her change in surroundings. Furthermore, the character of Myrtle Wilson, showcases her greed for wealth and her need of a rich-husband as an American dream, symbolized by the surrounding colour of grey, a representation of her veneer-rich persona.

The book The Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it’s a narrative told from the perspective of Nick Carraway. He tells the story of the tragic life of Jay Gatsby and talks about the society of the wealthy people with high social status. He talks about the conflict between the two huge power Tom and Gatsby, due to their similarity in their money and social status, while they compete for dominance and masculinity by fighting over Daisy. Through Nick’s narration and his close relationship with Gatsby, the readers realize that the motive behind everything that Gatsby does is to win back Daisy’s heart to repeat the past, the first time when he fell in love with Daisy.