The Great Gatsby Essay There are many symbols in life, like a skull symbolizing death, or a sunshine symbolizng happiness. But what other symbols are there in life? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are many times in which the author has something that sybolizes something and/or foreshadows something later in the story. Some examples of symbols in this story are the West Egg and East Egg, a mysterious green light from across the bay, and the ominous weather occuring at specific moments in the story. Through-out the story readers come to the senses that Gatsby wants to be seen as “one of them.”, as well as trying to achive the american dream. In the great Gatsby, there is alot of talk of the “West egg and East egg”. In the novel, the East egg represents the old money and West egg new money; the East egg is considered superior to West egg. On page 5 it says, “i lived at west egg, the—well, less fashionable of the two...” The West egg isnt seen as fashionable or as good as the people from the East egg, though they still have alot of money. Anyone who …show more content…
The weather can symbolize how a character feels or it can set the tone of whats happeneing in the story. In the story when daisy and Gatsby first see each other again, it was raining and it was very awkward between them, but after Gasby stepped out and changed, page 89, “..there was a change in Gatsby...he literally glowed...” all of a sudden it stopped raining, Page 89 Gatsby tells Daisy, “What do you think of that? It's stopped raining.” And in the end of the story at Gatsbys funeral, no one showed up, and coincidentally it was raining, it says on page 174, “Nobody came.” And, “...in a thick drizzle beside the gate...” The weather gives us reader a feel for what happening through the weather, the rain symbolizes something bad or sad, and the rain stopping symbolizes something