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What Does Daisy Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

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In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolism is as important as the plot itself. Every character’s intentions and true personality goes hand-in-hand with the overall outcome of the story. Within this wordless essay, Daisy is shown as the character of focus. Surrounding her is a sea of green, and adjacent to her is a speech bubble filled with materialistic, yellow items. The collection of yellow, appearing to come directly out of Daisy’s mouth, symbolizes the voice full of money that Gatsby comments about to Nick within the aforementioned quote. All that is present in the bubble are consumerist, also demonstrating the corruption that was inside Daisy as a person. This is what lures Gatsby into Daisy; not her personality or physical

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