The Great Gatsby Theme Essay

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In Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” we see several different themes portrayed in creative and visionary ways that connect the reader to the book in ways that the reader becomes so connected to the story as if they were in it. As for character development, we see the main characters change tremendously from start to finish; as if they have become completely different people.

As a group we have gathered the idea of creating a collage in the “media product” section because a collage is a series of pictures based off of what your assignment is. We felt as if a collage would best represent the themes and character development because we're able to visually provide proof of what we’re claiming, and we can show the interpreter why we chose each picture for each theme/character development. An example of this can be a picture of money with a yellow background, as it can be found as a simple picture, one crucial theme to this story was wealth, and Gatsby once said “Money can buy you a yellow Rolls-Royce”; so the money is in the picture to show the money you buy the car with, and the yellow background because he was talking about buying a yellow car.

Previously discussed before, there are many themes throughout the book that help the reader interpret the story line better, The main themes that are found in this book are …show more content…

To briefly discuss , all these themes can be defined by pictures because there is no complicated terms nor difficulty to understand. Our plan is to put the pictures in chronological order to help the viewer understand the story better. Under each picture will be a brief explanation as to why the picture is there and what it represents, if the picture is of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, the picture in the collage will obviously be representing the theme of marriage, we can explain to the reader that the story began with this marriage and how it was broken up and that’s where a lot turning points began, which provided extreme