... will be his. To Gatsby, the green light stands for the unity with Daisy, him dreaming of their lives together but never understands that the water is not the only thing separating them from being together. Fitzgerald weaves throughout the novel the color gold, signifying the idea of "old money" and class. This symbol contrasts greatly with the color green portraying "new money". Before the 1920's, people used gold as ... a means of buying and selling. After the national currency ... ...

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... achieves; his money, which is green, is obtained through illegal practices, but even so, he becomes successful and rich. In this case, the usage of the color green in the novel may represent happiness, depended on money at that time period. In the 1920's, the American dream primarily had to do with being rich, and through this, being able to fulfill your dreams. "He saw me looking ... , with a torn green shirt, that had dreams that could not be fulfilled, into Gatsby, whose shirt is not torn, who is successful, and who has achieved many of his dreams. Other than the usage of the color gr...

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... to another man."" (73) Again, we are given the feeling of retreating from the brightness of New York City, into the dark and veiled underground world within the city of New York. Along side the more general constant stream of details is a much more specific form of description: color. Fitzgerald's use of color is one of the more striking aspects of the book. It is constant, but at the same time, totally unexpected. There is scarcely a narrative paragraph ... movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other. With little ripples that were ha...

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... 't have any real standing, even if they have money. The West Egg represents the "new money." The green light shines from the East Egg to the West Egg luring Gatsby towards what he has always wanted. And Daisy, the woman that Gatsby has always wanted but never gets, lives on East Egg. There is also a barrier of water between the two cities that keeps people like Daisy and Gatsby ... apart from one another and keeps them from reaching their goals and what they want in life. Another symbol used in the novel was colors. The first was the green light. The light was only a light, however to Ga...

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... . "With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden. The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass a thick red circle in the water- (170). After his death Gatsby's dream world collapsed, the extravagance that he used to live ... Gatsby drove. "Gatsby's gorgeous cream-colored car is also the indirect cause of his own death, as it is the deep imprint of the fan...

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... Egg. Gatsby is the exception of the West Egg resident. He is an exceedingly wealthy man in a middle class neighborhood. But is that really much different than a drug dealer living in a middle class area today? When it comes down to it, Gatsby is nothing more than a drug deal after all. He spends money on huge parties where the booze flows like water. This is not ... very different than a rave party laden with ecstasy in any of America's metropolises today. This brings us to the moral decadence that Fitzgerald explores in the novel. Tom Buchanan is the quintessential example of moral dec...

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... used extensively, particularly, the color green. The color green is one of the more prominent colors in The Great Gatsby. It embodies the essence of Gatsby's character and is used to represent 2 of the main themes in the story: Hope and Money. The introduction to the color green comes at the end of chapter 1, when Nick Carraway sees Jay Gatsby for the first time standing in front of his house. "He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious ... way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward-- and distinguished nothing ex...

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... can be viewed as a means of portraying the downfall of true values within people. People change, and let status and money affect them in some way, even those people who we believe will never change, do. "But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone-- he stretched his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and ... as far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward-- and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked on...

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... 't have any real standing, even if they have money. The West Egg represents the "new money." The green light shines from the East Egg to the West Egg luring Gatsby towards what he has always wanted. And Daisy, the woman that Gatsby has always wanted but never gets, lives on East Egg. There is also a barrier of water between the two cities that keeps people like Daisy and Gatsby ... apart from one another and keeps them from reaching their goals and what they want in life. Another symbol used in the novel was colors. The first was the green light. The light was only a light, however to Ga...

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• Grade Level: High School