... perception about the characters personality, the interpretation of Gatsby's death, and the distorted image of Gatsby's and Daisy's relationship. Notable variations from the book existed in the film. In the novel, the scene that preceded the death of Gatsby involved him "shouldering the mattress and starting for the pool ... that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared ". (pg.168) Another notable contrariety between the film and the book is how Daisy's personality is presented. In the film, before Gatsby is murdered, there are stills and shots of Daisy s...

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... course, as with the majority of most movie adaptations, there were minor and subtle changes in the movie, alongside missing content from the book. One of the biggest differences between the film and the book was the characters of both Daisy and Tom Buchanan. In the novel, Daisy seems to be a more intellectual and well brought up ... lady. Whereas in the movie, she is depicted as the typical, unintelligent blonde. Tom is the All American guy in the book, described as a well built football player with a confident gait. In contrast with the film, he is a scrawny and skinny husband whom Dais...

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... Gatsby The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is a famous peice of English literature. This book provides an insight for people of a newer generation to see what life was like for wealthy people in the early 1920's. This book is about relationships and different personalities, veiws, or emotions and how they effect each other. I think that the movie ... screen. I think the movie we watched in class does a nice job at capturing the mood of The Great Gatsby. One example of the movie showing the mood described in the book were Gatsby's partys. "Laughter is easier...

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... symbolized cleanliness and purity, but it also showed how white could be contaminated. Yellow represented immorality and corruption. Green, the dominant color in the book, illustrated wealth and Gatsby's unachievable dream. Fitzgerald connected the color white most closely with Daisy. Daisy wore white dresses, powdered her face white, and recalled her "white girlhood" (24). Even ... Daisy's house was furnished in white. White was used in the book to represent cleanliness, innocence, beauty, and wealth. The use of the color white enhanced Daisy's character as an "enchanted princess." Whe...

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... lasting impressions on me in many different ways. The books are The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Things They Carried by Tim O"Brien and Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. I happened to read all three of these books in the last few months, and all of them shocked me with their depth, ... realized the role of an observational narrator is so common, which I had never really given thought to before. From then on, the biggest impact the book had on me, is that I pay so much more attention to the narrator and their personal style, and what they see and how they convey their ... people...

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... other people clean up the mess they had made." This quote shows the carelessness in the 1920's. A third symbol is the valley of ashes in between West and East Egg. This valley represents the garbage dump where the poor live. It symbolizes the moral and social decline ... poor. I think the book portrayed the Valley of Ashes better than the movie. The movie helped by showing the smoke and ashes, but the book went into detail about the conditions. "This is a valley of ashes where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of ... houses and...

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... differences were very minor. There were a few differences that are worth noting however. Many of them are scenes left out of the movie that occurred in the book. A few times something is switched around. I had a list of differences from the film but I selected a few of the main ones. A difference ... to Daisy, because his dream is to be with Daisy. As well as the green light Fitzgerald drops other symbols like the valley of ashes. The valley of ashes represents societies moral and social decadence. These decreases are generally and mainly caused as a result of their unrestrainment to weal...

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... colors were used to show the meaning of situations, or the character. The color green played a major role in the story. The main character of the book, Jay Gatsby was represented by the color green. He was a wealthy man, who was deeply in love with Daisy Buchanan. His feelings and the relationship ... between them two was represented by the color green. In the beginning of the book, Gatsby was looking out to the flashing green light. It showed he was searching for daisy. Gatsby and Daisy were separated in their past because Gatsby ... bright and pretty colors. The color grey is describe...

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... that make the novel more intriguing. Three of the most important symbols found several times in the novel are the green light, the valley of ashes and the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock helps build an understanding of the character of ... reminds him that it's only an advertisement. To George these eyes do represent God, but that is not always their true meaning. Later in the book, the eyes also come to represent the meaningless world and the minds of people who make the world meaningless. In Chapter VIII, Nick imagines what Gatsby ......

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... kill Gatsby. This is very hypocritical because at the same time Tom is having an affair with a woman, Myrtle, from the valley of ashes, an industrial wasteland situated between West Egg and New York. There are many symbols that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses in "The Great Gatsby". ... his way of accomplishing them. Another important symbol that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses are the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg, a giant billboard in the valley of ashes. "The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face but, instead, ... from a pair of enormo...

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... person and which it is likely I shall never find again" (179). Evidence of Gatsby's early expectations of himself was discovered by Gatsby's father in a book that had once belonged young James Gatz. He had inscribed in the book his daily schedule: Rise from bed .. 6.00 A.M. Dumbbell exercise and wall scaling 6.15-6.30 Study electricity ..7.15-8.15 Work 8.30-4.30 Baseball and sports ... one who would invent a "needed invention" (181). He recognized the importance of studying and "no more smokeing or chewing" or "wasting time" (181). He even made himself "read one improving book or magazi...

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... given directly to the reader in the text; this makes the meaning personal to the reader. Fitzgerald makes the reader search for the meanings in the book, which makes it much more exciting to read. Some of these symbols are the green light at the end of the Buchanans' dock, Gatsby's ... billboard. These three symbols mean far more that what the reader first thinks, which is how Fitzgerald does such an excellent of expressing their meaning throughout the book. Most of Fitzgerald's symbols have a double meaning, each of these meanings add a different dimension to the novel that allows there...

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... , the symbolism begins with two cities, East Egg and West Egg, which are separated by The Valley of Ashes. Fitzgerald uses the cities and valley to represent three distinct classes of wealth. As the book opens, Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, just moved to New York to work in the bond ... the Valley, are hollow; as time progresses, the Valley grows ranker as do the lives of many characters in the novel. Lying in The Valley of Ashes is another dominant symbol in the novel, which is the billboard eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg; they are enormous and always seem to be watching the ......

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... we see that they look like gold as well: "Jordan's slender golden arm". An other color that has the same meaning as gold or yellow in this book is silver. Silver is also a color common among Gatsby's properties like his silver tie. Green is the second most important color in this ... book and is the color contradicting yellow as it represents "new wealth" like Gatsby's wealth. Green is also the color of hope and promise which has the most ... have any mean intentions and does never mean to cause harm as long as it does not affect her status. The Valley of Ashes is a large area of wais...

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... she is able to accept Tom's money and even his brutality, even after he breaks her nose on the party ",tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand."(Fitzgerald 39). Beside the love of her husband, this is not enough; her fortitude to obtain what she wants causes her downfall and in the end even her death. Gatsby's yellow car ... all the characters in the novel. When you are poor like Wilson the only dream you can dream is the American dream. His dream is to leave The Valley of Ashes with Myrtle. ""I've been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go west.""(Fitzgeral...

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... the "new money". He depicts one of the many people of the 1920's who grew suddenly rich, usually through illegal means. The newly emerging middle class is represented by the book's narrator, Nick Carraway. Not too rich and not too poor, he lived comfortably. It is through his eyes and ears that we form our opinions of the other characters. Those ... 's dream and presiding over the harrowing spectacle of Gatsby's funeral, Nick realizes that the fast life on the East Coast is a cover for the moral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. Having gained the maturity that this insight t...

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... west egg, the west egg being "new money" and the east egg representing the established "old money." One other representation of this in the book is Gatsby's unrequited love for Daisy. His dream is ruined by the differences in social status regardless of his attempt to acquire enough money to impress ... endlessly to salvage a dream from his past but did not succeed, the same problem many others were facing during this time period as well. Throughout this book Fitzgerald uses an immense amount of pathetic fallacy. Gatsby and Daisy's reunion takes place in the middle of a storm and just as...

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... Wilson. The black atmosphere surrounding it represents the hopelessness of their insolvent situation. "This is the valley of ashes.../where ashes take the forms of ashes and chimneys and rising smoke"(27), the ashes represent the black and how it puts a negative burden on Wilson and restricts him from future success. Gold also has an important meaning in the story. Gold symbolizes "God, healing ... Wilson. The black atmosphere surrounding it represents the hopelessness of their insolvent situation. "This is the valley of ashes.../where ashes take the forms of ashes and chimneys and risi...

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... it .5:00-6:00 " Study needed inventions .7:00-9:00 " GENERAL RESOLVES No wasting time at Shafters or (indecipherable name) No more smoking or chewing Bath every other day Read one improving book or magazine per week Save $5.00 $3.00 per week Be better to parents" (174). Hopalong Cassidy is a typically romantic American figure of heroism and adventure. Gatsby's program for self-improvement ... written in the back of this book reflects Gatsby's struggle to acquire the two basic qualities of the American Hero: hard-working ambition and a robust desire for adventure. Gatsby's change from Ja...

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... paints a vivid portrait of a land ruined by greed and wastefulness. In the novel the reader is introduced to the "Valley of Ashes." The "Valley of Ashes" is a desolate land created by the dumping of the industrial waste. Fitzgerald uses the " Valley of Ashes" to portray, the corruptiveness of wealth, it leads to a life of materialism and purposeless spending and ends in, the ugliness ... . The people of this dismal place are as used and drained up as the land surrounding them. Every aspect of the valley is decreased , the people who live amongst the ashes are slightly less human and the ...

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In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the settings of East and West eggs, The Valley of Ashes, and New York City to assist the actions of the main characters. The East Egg is more of the upscale region of the setting. People that ... them."(9) Lavery 2 Halfway between West Egg and New York City sprawls a deserted plain; a gray valley called The Valley of Ashes. The Valley of Ashes is a symbol of absolute unhappiness and poverty. George Wilson owns a garage in the Valley of Ashes. He is a glum, poor man. His life matches perfectly with where he lives. He's life practically ends when he...

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... . The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg watch over this original sin. These eyes, like the eyes of God or any other higher power, watch over the sins of the Valley of Ashes. "God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing God sees everything." (167) And like God, Dr. Eckleburg's eyes watch over all the sins that occur in ... the dark vile, sinful Valley of Ashes. Soon after Wilson talks about God like this Doctor T.J. Eckleburg's eyes " just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night." (167) This appearance of Dr. Eckleburg's eyes after a statement about ... , they serve as ...

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... that kept them together , and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (Nick) In extreme contrast to the Two Eggs , The Valley of Ashes is the wasteland in between the Two Eggs and New York .It is where both worlds meet , where the middle class , unsuccessful people lives.Surrounded by ... wealthy " He (Tom) had on a dress suit and patent-leather shoes .." This shows the materialism of the people during 1920s in New York. The Valley of Ashes is the land of the lost American dream , people here like Wilson are being exploited by wealthy people ; Tom using him to get Mytrle , and ...

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... are important when showing us how corrupt they can be symbolically. Corruption can be shown in the symbolic settings. This is a valley of ashes- a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of house and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling ... through the powdery air (27). The valley of ashes is just one of the symbolic settings that show us how corrupt society really is. The valley of ashes represents the downfall of society. It is a decay of...

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... spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg" (Fitzgerald 23). This billboard has been set in the valley of ashes for many years. Doctor T. J. Eckleburg had to have been a successful doctor to be put up on a billboard. The citizens of the valley of ... ashes work day after day in harsh conditions trying to achieve the American dream. The money is controlling them because of how society is in the 1920's. The rich and the ... poor only cared about money in the 1920's. No one is happy in this book because of the fasci...

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