Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are several reoccurring symbols. These metaphorical devices provide for an understanding of the characters and the theme of how the "American Dream" is slowly fading in the 1920's. For most of these symbols there are several different interpretations and meanings. Fitzgerald's use of symbols makes the reader ... the poor, non-socialites, such as George Wilson, who live near these dirty, endless ashes. Their vitality has been tarnished by the ashes, which makes them seem less important. Another reoccurring symbol is the eyes o...

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The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel with many themes and symbolism. One reoccurring theme shown in the novel is the theme of immorality. Another theme is the theme that Gatsby was always living in the past. The final theme is that the American Dream died. One way in which immorality is shown in this novel are the affairs between Daisy Buchanan and Tom Buchanan ... Gatsby's death and Myrtle's death they just up and left. They did not follow through on going to either ones funeral but just continued on with there lives. The second theme in the novel is that Gatsby was a...

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... of love and betrayal, lust and infidelity, all of which were the foundation of the twenties. Much like the other authors of his time, all of Fitzgerald's works had a similar theme while still each maintaining its own uniqueness. Within the short story Winter Dreams, by Fitzgerald, there were many of the same themes as that in The Great Gatsby such as ... as having similarities both stories contained distinctive differences such as endings and relationships. With in these two stories the characters Daisy Buchanan and Judy Jones share similar qualities and characteristics. A reoccurring t...

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In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many of the characters lived in their own world of make believe. A theme that is reoccurring through out the story is, "A confusion with the real with the ideal never goes unpunished" by Goethe. This replicates how many of the characters mistake fantasy for reality. Money was ... ...

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