... Nick. The application of symbolism made his work surpass the narrow individual world, connect the subjective with the objective, and amplify as well typify 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 a new talen...

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... reality: 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 means of color, of the ... problem for the young Mid-westerner is to prevent himself from mistaking the glittering appearance for the true state of things. The light-dark symbolism is employed with gre...

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... " thing a rose is. In saying this, I think what 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 is only so because people have come to perceive it that way. In similar ways, Nick believes that Gatsby had ... cruel, duplicitous 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 indi...

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