... , it is Mitchell's presentation of the realistic side of clouds/love that sets her text apart from Slumdog and Gatsby. Latika's yellow dress and Gatsby's green light are seen as symbols of hope and love, with both characters so consumed by their illusions that they are unable to step back and see love for what it really is. That is to ... flaws of reality. Hence, the symbolism of the mockingbird is closely related to Latika's yellow dress, Gatsby's green light and Mitchell's clouds – because all are ultimately illusions. All four symbols depict the illusion of love that the characters ...

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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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