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The Green Light In The Great Gatsby

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3.3. Symbols In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald used symbols to convey the illusory nature of the American Dream. 3.3.1. The green light The green light situated at the end of Daisy’s dock, represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the happy future with his erstwhile lover. In the first Chapter, he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American Dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal. In Chapter 9, Nick describes North America as the large, undeveloped piece of green land had filled that the original Dutch explorers with hope and ambition. He compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have …show more content…

In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while East Egg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom Buchanan represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, his mansion is “a factual imitation of some Hotel de ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side” and with a “marble swimming pool” (1.7). He wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce, and does not pick up on subtle social signals, such as the insincerity of the Sloanes ' invitation to lunch (Chapter 6). In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace taste, subtlety, and elegance, epitomized by the Buchanans ' tasteful home and the flowing white dresses of Daisy and Jordan Baker. The East Eggers prove themselves careless, inconsiderate bullies who are so used to money 's ability to ease their minds that they never worry about hurting others. The Buchanans exemplify this stereotype when, at the end of the novel, they simply move to a new house far away rather than considered attending Gatsby 's

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When Nick visits the Buchanan’s house in “East Egg”, Jordan and Daisy, his “second cousin once removed,” are “both in white,” Daisy also once had “a little white roadster,” and a “white face.” She is surrounded by white to represent innocence. She met Gatsby when “she was just eighteen” at Camp Taylor and she was “by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville.” She married “Tom Buchanan of Chicago” because Gatsby was poverty stricken at the time and Tom “had more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew.” Daisy shows attachment to money and material items when she visits Gatsby and his new found wealth, by crying over his shirts because they are “such beautiful shirts.”

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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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Hello my name is Daniel and my analytical iop will be on the symbolism of colors in the great Gatsby. I will focus my analysis on want I think are the most important colors which are green, grey, white and yellow. The color green is the most important color in the great Gatsby because this is the color that Gatsby’s life is based around. To Gatsby the green light represents Daisy who is his dream.

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