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Archetypal Analysis Of The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Archetypal Analysis of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel published in 1925 written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nick Carraway is the narrator and also Daisy Buchanan’s cousin. Daisy is wed to the strong, rich, Tom. However, Daisy begins to question her marriage after her re-encounter with the famous and charming Mr. Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is known for its controversy for all of the symbols and meanings throughout the novel. Many symbols are explicit, while others remain hidden. The main symbols of the book are colors, Dr. T. J. Eckleburg’s sign, money, and the green light. The colors yellow and gold are mentioned numerous times throughout the novel. The yellow cocktail music, the two girls in twin yellow dresses, and Gatsby’s car …show more content…

Phaethon tried to drive the sun chariot for a day and fails miserably (“The Great Gatsby”). Gatsby does not drive a sun chariot, but instead a bright yellow car. He tries to capture Daisy’s heart with his car but also ends up …show more content…

T. J. Eckleburg’s sign has a lot of meaning as well. The sign is for an eye doctor’s business which never opened (“The Great Gatsby”). It symbolizes blindness. Gatsby is too in love with the idea of Daisy that he does not see her for who she is. She is nothing but money. Tom is blind to see his hypocrisy (“The Great Gatsby”). To Tom it is okay to have a mistress. His mistress is Myrtle Wilson. Once Tom starts to see his wife having feelings for another man, it is completely different and unacceptable. Before Myrtle dies, she blindly rushes to the car with Daisy and Gatsby inside, and gets killed. More examples of blindness in the novel are: “The little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke” (Fitzgerald 37), “Blinded by the glare of the headlights…” (Fitzgerald 55), “The east was haunted for me… distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction” (Fitzgerald 178). Money represents control (Lockridge 12-13). Money gives Gatsby control over all of the elements except one. His car can control earth. His hydroplane can control water and air. He cannot control fire. In science, heat corresponds with the greek letter delta. Delta is most commonly used for a “change” in something. Gatsby cannot control change. This is why he and Daisy do not end up together. It just so happens that the day Gatsby died was “Certainly the warmest” day of the summer with “broiling” heat (Fitzgerald 114). After Daisy kills Myrtle in Gatsby’s car, Nick describes it as a

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Thomas Foster emphasizes that symbols have many different interpretations that are determined by our “individual history.” Factors such as race, gender, religion, and education contribute to our “individual history” to give every reader a differing perspective on literature. Symbols are used throughout The Great Gatsby to further develop themes of the decline of the American Dream, class and societal differences, and the difficulty of time. For example, one evolving symbol in The Great Gatsby is the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. At the beginning of the novel, the light represents the dream Gatsby has to be with Daisy, but as the possibility of attaining his dream diminishes, we see the symbol change.

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The Roaring Colors The timeless American classic, The Great Gatsby, written by literary genius F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered the most important work of literature in American history as it is masterfully crafted with themes and ideals that were way ahead of its time and set the tone for future authors. In the story, Fitzgerald uses colors to give meaning and depth to an already complex story. These colors are used to describe characters and give them intangible qualities and adds more variations in the settings of the story. One character in particular who is described vividly with colors is the man protagonist and rival of Gatsby Tom Buchanan.

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the most major symbols in the novel The Great Gatsby is the green light that is across the lake from Gatsby's home. This light, to Gatsby, is Daisy; Gatsby longs to see Daisy and after he figures out where Daisy lives he buys the home across the lake from her. The green light represents the love and hope he has and wants to share with Daisy in his future. In the first chapter of the book Gatsby even reaches for the green light as if he believes he can actually touch it. Another major symbol in the novel

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Some symbols that relied on him is “The Green Light”, the green light is connected to Daisy which means the light is connected to Daisy’s feelings. Another on that showed up in this novel is “The Eyes of Dr. Tj Eckleberg.” which means everyone is watching your every move. Lastly, a symbol that’s connected to Gatsby is the Ominous weather, The weather is connected to Gatsby’s feelings just how the green

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In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolism is very important all throughout it. Not only does he use objects to show symbolism, but he also uses color symbolism to prove the importance of the theme and development of the characteristics in the Great Gatsby. Color symbolism brings out the visual of the story, so readers can picture it in their mind as they are reading. Fitzgerald took the colors to an advanced level by using key colors to help further deepen the meaning of the book and its characters. Although there are many colors in the novel, Fitzgerald uses the colors green, white, and yellow to symbolize Gatsby’s emotions and riches.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Great Gatsby uses the tragic hero archetype to further his point that the American Dream is dead. The tragic hero archetype is defined by Aristotle as a character cursed with hubris who has a reversal of fortune and suffers a greater fate than deserved. Gatsby fits into this definition perfectly, excessive pride being shown when he aspires to reverse fate itself and bring everything back to his definition of normal. His strive to reverse fate and desire to attain the unattainable turns fortune against him and in doing so suffers the greatest fate, dying at the hand of Mr. Wilson who killed Gatsby out of rage, erroneously believing Gatsby to have killed his wife. Gatsby portrays his excessive pride clearly in a number

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