... : Gatsby is slain, the enchanted universe is exposed as a world of wholesale corruption and predatory violence, and Nick returns to the Midwest in disgust. As we shall see, the color-symbols render, with a close and delicate discrimination, both the dream and the reality "and these both in their separateness and in their tragic intermingling. Now the most obvious representation, by ... and Jordan, when they are introduced to the reader in the first scene of the novel, are dressed in white. In this scene, in which almost all of the color symbols are born, Nick tells us that "the only comp...

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... individual experiences.Symbolism, as a unique artistic technique, has two important meanings according to the definition from Webster: one is to explain invisible things by using visible symbols; the other is the connection and relation between symbols and meanings. Hence symbolism in fiction aims to present the hidden things and thoughts under phenomena. Fitzgerald himself had the experiences, from an obscure poor to ... ...

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... a symbol of wealth and status during the Jazz Age, and this is present in both books, comparable to owning popular branded items nowadays. Ironically, cars can also be seen as symbols of destruction through the car crashes that occur in both books. Indeed, the apathy towards cars and crashes shows how the elite had so much money they could afford to ... ...

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The American dream is a tacit promise given to all citizens in this country, which states that regardless of social class, any individual can aspire to new heights based upon the ideology of meritocracy. The American dream is a "recurring theme in American literature"(Pearson) and in American society. However, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's critically acclaimed novel, presents the American dream as an illusion which can never be achieved, and according to recent events in America, Fitzgerald is evidently correct. The personification of Daisy as the American Dream, the issue of meritoc...

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... and unfeeling men like Tom, get the love of beautiful women that are longed for by the nice guys of the world, dreamers like Gatsby. Again about Nick's analogy on symbols taking the interpretation of what individuals give them, we see in the last scenes of The Great Gatsby that Wilson, Myrtle's husband believed that Dr T.J Eckleburg's eyes is the ever ... ...

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... social conventions as in the English novel. While the most interesting achievement of American fiction lie not in realism but in abstract forms of romance' American literature is rich in symbols and codes, whether or not the artist fully realizes what is being attempted. These patterns exist in all literary forms. I will attempt in this summary to propose the suggestion that ... ...

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