... the most prominent are the automobile, representing wealth; the color white, representing Daisy's purity and innocence; and the seasonal change from Summer to Fall, representing Gatsby's death. From chapter one, Fitzgerald relies on the color white to characterize Daisy as an innocent and pure character. In this chapter, Daisy is wearing a white dress, and correspondingly, she behaves innocently as well. Nick ... became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning and long past midnight" (43). Near the end of the novel, when Daisy hits Myrtle, Fitzgerald...

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... more passionate than his narration would lead the reader to believe. The use of subjectivity is however, an essential ingredient in this novel and therefore Fitzgerald had to make sure that Nick did have all the qualities essential to be a good narrator. If the creation of Nick was unsuccessful the ... the whole lot of them." These comments indicate that he did indeed listen to his father's advice by not jumping to readily to prejudge. Fitzgerald has put his narrator, Nick, in the most privileged position in terms of access to the main characters. He knows Tom and Daisy Buchanan very ......

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... material things before anything else, showing society's influence on how she lives her life based on the capitalist economy that controls America. To further develop the covetous nature of Daisy, Fitzgerald uses the sudden change of her behavior upon viewing Gatsby's house and his wardrobe to express that greedy people change their mannerisms to get what they want. Daisy swings from ... , but I don't see how you live there all alone' - and then Gatsby simply replies "I keep it full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people'- (Fitzgerald 96)...

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... that exemplify him as a character. Gatsby uses his catchphrase the very first time he meets Nick, "I thought you knew, old sport. I'm afraid I'm not a very good host" (Fitzgerald 48). Gatsby uses his catchphrase incessantly because he tirelessly attempts to become a part of the elite New York community. Furthermore, his attempts to merge into a high-class New Yorker become ... "Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park" (Fitzgerald 41). Gatsby's life is basica...

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... fortune "(Brannon 566) with factors like these behind someone they must have been exceptionally great compared to the writers he was in competition with. F Scott Fitzgerald was ready for something new in his life, he got a new wife, he wanted new adventures, so he ventured into other avenues in his ... of the American Dream. Gatsby embodies the ideas of self-made wealth and the ability to make something of yourself despite your backgrounds and upbringing. Fitzgerald's book shows the corruptness of the American Dream in Gatsby's era of the 1920's with gambling, bootlegging, and various ot...

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... during the war." All of these lead the reader to believe Gatsby is involved in criminal activities. The full details are always kept hidden however as Fitzgerald doesn't wish us to know them. If we did, our viewpoint on Gatsby would be very different and if that happened we"d be reading a ... different novel. The "anti-hero" is a more modern device portrayed in films and comic books. Fitzgerald refrains from turning Gatsby into this as we are meant to see a hero with faults not a villain with morals. From Nick's viewpoint and therefore from ... his judgemental stance that personifies h...

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... by presenting the basics of the Capitalist society where nonhumanitarianism (not promoting the welfare of humanity), reification (treating a living thing as an object), and market value are common place. Fitzgerald implies that the Capitalist system is flawed because at the conclusion of the novel, all of the characters that represent typical American Capitalism fall from grace to a world of utter ... rich are drastically separated from the poor, and the rich wish to keep it that way. This is a Capitalist ideal; because the characters have this value and they are corrupt, Fitzgerald is ...

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... is known as the great American Dream. It is the idea that anybody from anywhere can become anyone. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1925. The book illustrates the American Dream when the narrator, Nick Carraway from the middle class, moves to New York ... Daisy over with his new money. Did Gatsby really achieve the American Dream or does his small town background keep him from it? Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream using multiple symbols in his book, The Great Gatsby. No matter how hard Gatsby tries to impress Daisy with ... green light disappearing symboli...

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... to display the relationships between both themes. Gold represents old money because gold displays wealth. In contrast, yellow epitomizes new money as yellow imitates gold, but fails, lacking true authenticity. Fitzgerald attempts to emphasize the difference between old money and new money through the symbolic use of color. In the novel, the contrasting colors yellow and gold represent the differences between ... orchestra playing "play[s] yellow cocktail music"(42). This "yellow... music" creates a milieu of fabrication to his party. Desperately trying to fit into old money (PrPP), Gats...

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... Vastly differing from the two other cities, The Valley of Ashes, is a working-class neighborhood lying between the old and new money cities. Fitzgerald's Valley of Ashes, which could be described as a virtual dumpster for modern industrial waste, essentially certifies the decay in human values that ... , "'You can't repeat the past.' 'Can't repeat the past?' Gatsby cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!'" (Fitzgerald 111). Daisy has been the object of Gatsby's obsession for the past five years, and his romanticism will not allow him to separate the past ... I could have s...

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... boundaries by all that lived during the era. We see all three of these aspects perfectly portrayed in The Great Gatsby, a novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. In this novel, the main character Jay Gatsby is shot by George Wilson. Even though Gatsby was physically killed by Wilson, there are many other ... his car. "Anyhow- Daisy stepped on it. I tried to make her stop but she couldn't so I pulled on the emergency brake" (Fitzgerald 151). By Daisy murdering Myrtle, Wilson was driven to revenge his wife's death. Daisy allowed Gatsby to cover for her careless and selfish action too. This ... ...

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... several false tales. First she said, "Well, they say he's a nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where his money comes from" (Fitzgerald 32). Gatsby wasn't in any way related to Kaiser Wilhelm; therefore, it became evident how incorrect these accusations were. As Nick and Catherine continued to talk, ... she also said, "I'm scared of him" (Fitzgerald, 32). Gatsby fully separated himself from people, so as an outcome, people got crazy ideas, like Catherine who said she was scared of him. ... Many other people also had outrageous thoughts about him, like one lady who said, "one ti...

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... eye-sore I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbors lawn and the consoling proximity of millionaires- all for eighty dollars a month- (Fitzgerald 9,10). And Gatsby who lives in " a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin ... learn about the personalities of Nick and Gatsby. Nick's personality was shaped at a young age, when his father told him " to recline all judgments - (Fitzgerald 5). This made Nick more aware of people's feelings. Nick was a friendly and literary young man, who didn't like to gossip. N...

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... the green light at the end of the dock. "and distinguished nothing except a single green light/...might have been the end of a dock"(24), Fitzgerald symbolized the green light as the key to reaching Daisy. While on the beach, Gatsby is stretching out his arms to the light as if he will ... even though he only has new money. These actions are shown through some of Gatsby's possessions, "here's my little golden pencil"(111). Fitzgerald depicts how Gatsby reveals little hints of having old money in order to impress Daisy. The colors in The Great Gatsby reveal the true intentions of the ... ...

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... quite a place of tradition. These people are of new wealth, are tacky, like to party and live life lavishly. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald is continuously showing how the two establishments do not mix. There are many examples of how the two establishments are contrasted and that Jay Gatsby ... outlook towards those of the new establishment is when Daisy comes to Gatsby's party and is not have a good time. When referring to Daisy, Fitzgerald states, " But the rest offended her- and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion. She was appalled by the west egg," ... are from d...

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... starts to die down and Gatsby is "standing alone...looking from one group to another", Nick can "see nothing sinister about him" (Fitzgerald 50). Just as Jesus was not sinister because he "committed no sin" throughout his life on earth (1 Peter 2:22). Nick even states that ... Gatsby "was a son of God" and "must be about his Father's business" (Fitzgerald 98). In Luke 2:49, Jesus, the son of God, tells his earthly parents that he "must be about [his] Father's business". Although Gatsby's and ... at Gatsby's house, rumors start to fly such as "he was a German spy during the war" to "he k...

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... Gatsby] had ever really believed in its existence before"(117). Through these senses Nick and the reader realized that Gatsby's dream was unattainable. Fitzgerald places Gatsby in an awkward situation to force him to choose between moving on or continuing to live in the past. Yet, Gatsby cannot accept ... Gatsby but Tom has money which is more appealing, important and secure, than Gatsby's simple love. One of the most symbolic ideas in Fitzgerald's novel is the corrupting influence money has on American society and on the American Dream. Gatsby spends his adult life engaged in illegal .....

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... in the early 1920s, gives readers a descriptive look into what it was like to be an east coast American during the Roaring Twenties. Through Fitzgerald's novel, we are introduced to the lavish lives of wealthy people during one of the rowdiest periods in American history. We learn through these characters ... of the stereotype of what it was to be a women and alcohol was flowing like water in American homes. It was a wild carefree time and Fitzgerald captured this moment greatly. In the novel, Gatsby threw several parties where people free food and liquor (definitely cant drink on an emp...

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... , prominence, fresh fashion trends, and the excess of alcohol are all aspects of life in the "roaring twenties." The booming parties in Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby reflect life in America during the 1920s. Gatsby displays his prominent fortune by throwing grand parties. From next door, Nick Carraway ... speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world"(Fitzgerald 48). Gatsby's fortune and parties cause great speculation and gossip all over Long Island. The "talk" is based on his materia...

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... , prominence, fresh fashion trends, and the excess of alcohol are all aspects of life in the "roaring twenties." The booming parties in Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby reflect life in America during the 1920s. Gatsby displays his prominent fortune by throwing grand parties. From next door, Nick Carraway ... speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world"(Fitzgerald 48). Gatsby's fortune and parties cause great speculation and gossip all over Long Island. The "talk" is based on his materia...

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... that he can offer her security and anything she wanted. " he let her believe that he was a person from much the same strata as herself" (Fitzgerald 142). As a consequence Gatsby had to achieve these riches which blinded him of a probable outcome, his self destruction. The green light from daisy's house from ... that welcoming light." he stretched out his arms toward a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock."(Fitzgerald 25) Yet when he was with daisy and he showed her the light the light was not there. This can be interpreted that since the light ...

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... so simple that they are complicated. They want something so badly yet they act like they don't want it only because they know that they can never have it. Fitzgerald characters are so petty, and small-minded. Gatsby is a man with, as he sees it, an attainable dream. He wishes to re-create the past. This ... He even goes out of his way just to be near Daisy. "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay." (p 56, Fitzgerald.) Fitzgerald made this character this way so it is likely that the reader knows the attainable dream. Gatsby does not try to hide behind his drea...

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... not respect new money. Tom expresses this by saying, "a lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know" (Fitzgerald 114). He says this to Nick, behind Gatsby's back. Tom hates Gatsby even before Gatsby tried to take Daisy from him, because of the traditions ... with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games. This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness" (Fitzgerald 77). Nick said that the richest man can have everything, but will feel empty inside. Nick appreciates Gatsby's dream of becoming rich but does .....

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... of the American Dream. This delusion of the American Dream is the paramount theme in The Great Gatsby, and it is the main message Fitzgerald attempts to convey in his saddening, but insightful novel. Daisy is stupefying and elusive, a crucial character who represents the American Dream (appositive ... 't have "pomp and circumstance"(75), like Tom Buchanan, and as a result Gatsby reinvents himself by becoming a financially successful man. Fitzgerald purposely has Gatsby state that Daisy's "voice is full of money"(120), because it reveals that Gatsby has hope to woo and ... 're not allowin...

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... people will go through many levels of extreme situations to ultimately achieve what is known as the American Dream at that period in time. Fitzgerald shows this through several different examples of literary devices and elements of fiction, but the three that made his portrayal of the concept stand ... out the most were symbolism, motifs, and setting. The first literary device used to portray Fitzgerald's view of the concept of the American Dream was symbolism. In the novel, the symbol of the green light is mentioned many times. At ... he will get her. Gatsby used the American Dream to...

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