... Nick Carraway's descriptions of Jay Gatsby to make Gatsby into the embodiment of the American Dream's corruption. The Great Gatsby is widely accepted as F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest piece of work. The novel is an almost perfect artistic creation, which is perhaps the single most American novel of its time. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses The Great Gatsby as the vehicle by which he offers the central concerns of his writing ... filling the room with the substantial yet useless symbols of his wealth. (Randall, 1-4) "They"re such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffed in the thick folds. ...

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... and objects to symbolize other more significant ideas or meanings. In great literature, the syntax and diction of the entire work has symbolism and deeper meaning. Authors usually symbolize or allude to objects or the ideas of the time period that the literature is written although some authors allude to past symbols from very different time periods. For example, if an author was ... writing in the romantic period (1790-1830) he/she would most likely be writing about or alluding to nature ... The Great Gatsby," is considered great because it explores universal themes of love and rejecti...

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