The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald had its high points and low points. The beginning was very slow like most books, but I think the author made a great choice in choosing Nick as the narrator. He’s the easiest character to relate to and seemed to be the only character that was some what normal. A big example of symbolism is the is The Valley of Ashes. It represents the moral and social downfall that results from the uncontrollable greed for wealth, as the rich are living the american dream with little regard for anything except their own gain and pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the unfortunate situation the poor have to live through. An example of someone living through this is George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result …show more content…
The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of glasses with eyes painted on an old advertising billboard. They seem to represent God staring down at the moral wasteland that is the American society, but this is never actually proven throughout the book. Instead, throughout the book, Fitzgerald suggests that symbols are created by the characters who give them a meaning. The last symbol I’m going bring up is the green light, which is positioned at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn. The green light represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams associated with his love interest Daisy. Hence, the location of the green light. At one point he even reaches into the darkness, towards the light that he hopes will lead him to his goal. Another smaller representation of the green light can be found In Chapter 9 when Nick compares the green light to how America,becoming visible on the horizon, must have looked to early settlers of