In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald applies many important colors that allude to the personality of his characters. ... Another important color in The Great Gatsby is the color black. ... This unique symbolism demonstrates how much time Fitzgerald put into writing The Great Gatsby and making it understandable to the reader. ... In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald applies many important colors that allude to the personality of his characters. ... This unique symbolism demonstrates how much time Fitzgerald put into writing The Great Gatsby and making it understandable to the reader. ...

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Fitzgerald's Personal Background Paralleled with the Characters in The Great Gatsby As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920's, he used a variety of sources to develop the setting, themes and characters. ... Fitzgerald incorporates his personal background, peers and close friends, to form the personalities of the various characters in The Great Gatsby. ... "The substance for The Great Gatsby is largely material Fitzgerald had used before; at the heart of it once again are the love affairs of Scott Fitzgerald with Ginevra King and Zelda Sayre- (Kenneth Eble...

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A great deal of the adulterous and scandalous behavior described in The Great Gatsby is reflective of F. ... The Great Gatsby, a novel written by Fitzgerald, includes many autobiographical elements of the author's life. On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story about disillusioned love between a man and a woman. ... Jay Gatsby, the central character created by Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby grew up admiring the rich and has a strong desire for financial success, much like the author himself. ... However, by the time The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, Fitzgerald had already begun t...

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In The Great Gatsby, a theme widely explored by Fitzgerald is how class divisions that separate the wealthy from everyone else are presented. ... The wealthy elite are first presented in the first chapter of the Great Gatsby. ... This is shown in the Great Gatsby when Owl Eyes crashes the car at Gatsby's party in chapter three (p43), and how he knew "very little about driving.... Vile Bodies enhances the understanding of the Great Gatsby in this way through the satirical naming sense, suggesting that the names given in the Great Gatsby too have their own unique purposes. Indeed, i...

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The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald was the quintessential example of literature that displayed the corruption in the 1920s. The main quality I liked about The Great Gatsby is was the way Fitzgerald was able to take a story that seemed like a normal love story and turned it into much more. ... Fitzgerald uses the character Nick to observe the two sides of the problem presented. ... The Great Gatsby was the first thing that came to mind when I read the assignment because it accurately portrays the spirit of the times. ... This timeless classic was perfect because of the picture painted by...

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The Great Gatsby is an excellent novel, which greatly depicts the roaring twenties, and what is was like during the Jazz age. The Great Gatsby was written by Scott Fitzgerald, an odd, interesting but greatly intelligent man, who wrote the popular book shortly after he married his wife Zelda. ... In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the difference between east and west egg, shows the separation of the upper class and provides some insight with the use of symbolism of color. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the two fictional p...

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Many things from his novel, The Great Gatsby paralleled things from his life. ... Fitzgerald used familiar places and scenery from his life to help him with setting in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's father lived in Minnesota, and Gatsby grew up in Minnesota. ... Fitzgerald and Zelda lived in Great Neck, Long Island. East and West Egg, the setting for The Great Gatsby, in reality is where Great Neck is. ...

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In Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates the theme, "Outward appearances can be deceiving." ... We see that Gatsby is pursuing the woman he loves. ... Gatsby himself has an outside appearance that is deceiving. ... These issues in the book are all used by Fitzgerald to support the theme, "Outward appearances can be deceiving." ... Fitzgerald does an excellent job of interweaving conflicts and plots to make the story a one-of-a-kind....

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Throughout "The Great Gatsby," Fitzgerald uses the color gold, a symbol of substance and wealth, to symbolize old money. ... In "The Great Gatsby," Fitzgerald uses the color yellow to symbolize a spurious version of old money: new money. ... Desperately trying to fit into old money (PrPP), Gatsby throws these parties but Fitzgerald's use of "yellow...music" harshly demonstrates how Gatsby's dream will never be reached because he will always be new money. ... Here, Fitzgerald uses yellow to display the tacky and feeble attempt of Gatsby, and new money as a whole, to appear old money. ...

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The Great Gatsby and the American Dream F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be THE novel about the American Dream. ... (Fitzgerald 97) Gatsby has built his fortune through some mysterious business practice. ... (Fitzgerald 111) Daisy's reactions justify Gatsby's beliefs. ... (Fitzgerald 116) Jay Gatsby thought his money would bring prestige, happiness, and most of all, Daisy. ...

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Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. ... However, what makes Fitzgerald great is by no means the "author's voice" in the work, but his marvelous wit to symbolically fuse the individual with the outer-world and the personal emotions with social environment. ... The symbolism of the hero evidently plays a vital role throughout the story.From the legendary life of Gatsby, we can actually find a great deal of Fitzgerald himself in it. ... So to some degree, the relatio...

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In The Great Gatsby "geographical locations separate social classes" (Hoggart 204). ... "New York City is the glitz and immortality district of The Great Gatsby" (Mulford). ... Scott Fitzgerald blends color, weather, and seasons into The Great Gatsby. ... "The Great Gatsby". ... "Fitzgerald, Perkins, Great Gatsby....

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Nick Carraway the narrator of The Great Gatsby has qualities, which are the complete opposite of those of Tom Buchanan, his cousin-in-law. ... Scott Fitzgerald, uses the comparison between two cousins to show how their differing characteristics reflect the themes of morality and reality versus illusion. ... Willison, to Gatsby. ... In showing the differing characteristics of Nick and Tom, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of morality and reality versus illusion. In The Great Gatsby, there are three illicit relationships: Gatsby and Daisy, Nick and Jordan, and Tom and Myrtle. ...

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Does Fitzgerald portray Gatsby as the one who is "Great" or is Nick Carraway the true hero of the novel? ... Despite the flaws shown, I believe Fitzgerald still wants us to view Gatsby as a hero. ... Fitzgerald has established him as our hero and for that we are lead to give him our full support: " "The Great Gatsby" is a dramatic affirmation, .. of the American spirit in the midst of an American world that denies the soul. ... Fitzgerald has given him this set of characteristics to show that he's not perfect, that no one within "The Great Gatsby" is. ... The lack of focus upon the...

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Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby" is a novel describing what Jay Gatsby goes through in a vain attempt to regain his long lost love, Daisy. ... The initial appearance of the green light occurs when Gatsby is standing in front of his mansion and stretching out his arms to "a single green light, minute and far away that might have been the end of a dock." (22) Fitzgerald symbolizes 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 acquire it somehow. ... Fitzgerald uses white to represent innocence and purity. ... In...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby perfectly illuminates the American life of the Jazz Age. ... There is no room for Gatsby's sentimentality in the sophisticated cynical world" ("Fitzgerald" 38). ... Within the character of Jay Gatsby we can see the dueling parts of Fitzgerald's own personality. ... "In many ways, The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald's attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age" ("Gatsby" n. pag.). Through Fitzgerald's great use of characterization, readers are able to imagine life of the self-made millionaires o...

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Scott Fitzgerald apparently agreed with this biblical concept in writing the novel The Great Gatsby. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses a great deal of symbolism in order to illustrate how the honorable pursuit of true love and happiness can be obstructed by the immoral pursuit of money. ... Initially, in The Great Gatsby, the symbolism begins with two cities, East Egg and West Egg, which are separated by The Valley of Ashes. ... In The Great Gatsby, God seems to abandon America, leaving behind only Dr. ... In conclusion, with a masterful use of symbolism and imagery, in The Great Ga...

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Deeper Thought: the symbolism of "The Great Gatsby" It is understood that in language, each word has a specific understood meaning, and each combination of words has a compiled meaning. ... Scott Fitzgerald was able to bring more depth into simple words. ... Fitgerald used amazing symbolism throughout the book "The Great Gatsby", and it forces the reader to consider each word for more than face value. ... Gatsby views Daisy as embodied perfection, and his longing for her is so great that the green light is like seeing true happiness right before your eyes but not being able to reach...

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The Great Gatsby The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is a famous peice of English literature. ... I think that the movie "The Great Gatsby" is sucessful in capturing the work of the author on screen. I think the movie we watched in class does a nice job at capturing the mood of The Great Gatsby. ... One thing that bothered me were the changes made to the movie "The Great Gatsby" from the book. ...

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There are a number of instances where symbolism is used in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ... Scott Fitzgerald uses objects or situations symbolically. ... These are just a few examples of the symbolism in The Great Gatsby. ... Scott Fitzgeralds writing. ...

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Symbolism in Great Gatsby Symbolism in the Great Gatsby Cary L. ... Sanders 20 May 1997 Symbolism in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Fitzgerald perfectly understood the inadequacy of Gatsby's romantic view of wealth. ... Gatsby's greatness was to have retained a sense of wonder as deep as the sailor's on that first landfall. ... It is through combining faultless artistry with symbolism that Fitzgerald paints a vivid picture of the dream destined to fail because it's basis was illusion. not reality The Great Gatsby Cary L. ...

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The Great Gatsby, by F. ... Over the years, Gatsby imagines Daisy as the perfect girl that he once knew before the war. ... Although Gatsby refuses to relinquish his obsessive dream of Daisy as the ideal girl, events throughout the novel portray to everyone except an oblivious Gatsby that Daisy possesses a true nature of raw carelessness. ... Despite Gatsby's unwavering love for her, she continues play with his feelings. ... Osborn 3 Fitzgerald intentionally does not include a single respectable female character within The Great Gatsby. ...

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The Great Gatsby Pathetic is a term used to describe someone who is pitifully unsuccessful. ... In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a pathetic character because he wasted his whole life chasing an unrealistic dream. ... (Fitzgerald 93) Gatsby does act like a little boy by overreacting and exaggerating the situation. ... The Great Gatsby. ... Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Great Gatsby. ...

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"The Great Gatsby," written by F. ... Fitzgerald's careful use of diction makes every character come to life, especially Jay Gatsby. ... " (Fitzgerald 110). ... Gatsby had so much faith and such strong feelings for Daisy that "he felt married to her, that was all" (Fitzgerald 149). ... Gatsby was very hurt by these words; they seemed to bite physically into him" (Fitzgerald 132). ...

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Scott Fitzgerald wrote what was considered to be his greatest work. The Great Gatsby is considered to be the "great American novel" by many because the main character of the story is said to "embody the innocence of the American dream." ... Critics say that Fitzgerald tells of this corruption in many of his novels, The Great Gatsby included. ... In chapter four of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald tells the reader that the American dream was originally about "discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness." ... Scott Fitzgerald proves this fact in The Great Gatsby. ...

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