... thing a rose is - (Fitzgerald 169). Nick compared Gatsby's illusions of Daisy to the idea of a rose. Nick said that Gatsby must have realized what a "grotesque- thing a rose is. In saying this Nick means is that the conventional social idea in the world about a rose connoting atheistic beauty is because people give it that symbolism. Nick believes that roses are not inherently beautiful; that it ... to be used. This change signifies her shattered illusions broken by her thwarted dreams. The endless quest for the fulfillment of the American Dream, can be seen in the Arthur Miller's play ...

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... an emotional island. The novel uses a major literary theme to show hidden meaning. The technique of symbolism is included into the novel. The author uses symbolism by showing how the American dream can be corrupted by wealthy people with little or no morals. Fitzgerald ... one where dreams come true and the where American dream is realized. His most important dream is his longing for Daisy. As Sulton said, "At this point in the novel, Gatsby can only reach longingly, from a distance toward a light he associates with his former lover." Gatsby ... Miller). They judge American society as a...

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... Daisy. "..Their love is founded upon feelings from the past, these give it, notwithstanding Gatsby's insistence on being able to repeat the past , an inviolability. It exists in the world of money and corruption but is not of it." (Lewis 48 ) In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the uses of literary technique of symbolism ... as representing some kind of detached intellect, brooding gloomily over life in the bleak waste land surrounding it, and presiding fatalistically over the little tragedy enacted as if in sacrifice before it." (Miller 36) The eyes not only symbolize a god "...

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