... view. "Haven't you ever seen it before?" "I'd seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we ... started to town- (68). This quote correlates the color green with money. Fitzgerald may be using green to symbolize money and its power in society, since money rules the lives of the people in the st...

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• Grade Level: High School

... that eluded so many women of her time. However, her upbringing and the way she was taught to live somewhat erased or hid these traits. When Daisy is first introduced, she is laid out on a couch with the wind blowing around her. Everything about her behavior at this time and later in the book suggests fragility. Even her name, Daisy, implies delicacy. A daisy is a beautiful ... white flower with very thin leaves and a thin stem, and handling them requires care and gentility. Daisies are somewhat ... that she could possibly have the courage to leave her husband even though her helplessne...

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• Grade Level: High School

... hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden. The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass a thick red circle in the water- (170). After his death Gatsby's dream world collapsed, the extravagance that he used to live with, the people ... . Even in his time of need, the reason for Gatsby's dream, Daisy, had left him to die alone. "I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, cal...

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• Grade Level: High School