...The Great Gatsby: Gatsby’s Party To some people, life is one big celebration. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Nick (the narrator) recalls the many parties his neighbor, Gatsby, has “hosted” and the type of people who attended. Through the use of polysyndeton and metaphors/similes, the author conveys Gatsby’s parties as lavish and the people as reckless. For instance, Gatsby’s orchestra hired for the party was “no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pit-full of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums.” Through the use of polysyndeton, Fitzgerald exaggerates the amount of instruments in the orchestra, capturing how huge it is. As a special guest to Gatsby and his parties, Nick reveals...
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...importance of the relationships in their life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby this idea is explored in the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy in which Gatsby uses his wealth in attempts to gain back to her love. Through symbolism, irony and imagery it becomes evident in Fitzgerald's writing that wealth and material objects cannot replace relationships or personal happiness. Through the usage of symbolism it is obvious Gatsby’s wealth is a proponent in the failure of his and Daisy’s relationship. Gatsby obtained his money and all of his extravagances in hopes of earning back the love he and Daisy once shared. However in one moment it is obvious that it is not possible, “He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them...While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher…, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily” (92). The shirts are representative of Gatsby's riches, which is he throwing in Daisy’s face in hopes of impressing her. Meanwhile, Daisy is realizing the life she left...
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...2015 Many authors use symbolism to have an object represent a different, significant meaning then the obvious meaning. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism quite often through the novel, such as the color of white to show the determination of the characters when it is actually used to cover up their dishonesty. Throughout the novel the color white is used many times as a symbol, such as the time Gatsby wore an all white suit during his encounter with Tom. Gatsby’s plan was very evil and selfish and it is very ironic that he chose that color, since they represent innocence. This was his way of hiding all of the things he did it the past that doesn’t make him look like a supporting type of such. He spent the past four years try to get rich by selling alcohol so he could be able to support someone like Daisy, but he did it in the wrong ways. While he was do this, Tom had the right idea and impressed Daisy without the use of money. When Jordan said “we’re all white here,” she was using it as a symbol to say that they all have nothing to hide because white is a color that represents innocence. When the argument was reaching its end, Gatsby’s not so innocent character was revealed. “That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him up for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong,” said Tom. Gatsby’s true character finally came out and the man who appeared to be generous for opening his house for fun and parties was not who he really...
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...the novel The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a multitude of literary devices to create the beautifully written piece. Foreshadowing and symbolism are the most important techniques used by him to make the reader have a stronger interpretation of the novel and to allow it to have a greater meaning. One of the key elements that Fitzgerald uses symbolism and foreshadowing for is death. Death is a main occurrence in the novel and Fitzgerald often alludes to it to give his novel a second dimension and allow the reader to become interactive with the reading. Many important characters of objects in the novel are symbols of death and destruction and these use of these symbols help to foreshadow when a death may occur. Thus...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald was an extraordinary author. He uses color symbolism throughout his famous novel The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, is related to Daisy Buchanan. Jay Gatsby, the man who throws the best parties in all of New York, is in love with Daisy. Tom, Daisy’s husband, has an affair with a woman named Myrtle from the Valley of Ashes. Fitzgerald use of color throughout the novel relates to the main character's thoughts, feelings, wants, and actions. Fitzgerald often uses the colors white, gold, and green to show further depth into the lives of the characters. White in the novel is used in reference with Daisy Buchanan. A daisy is white flower that represents innocence. When Nick first arrives at the Buchanan’s house in chapter one he says, “They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if hey had just been blown back in after short flight around the house.” (p.9) One of the girls he is referring to is Daisy. He is alluding to the fact the girls are happy, and full of life and innocence. White often represents innocence and purity....
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...With the roaring 20’s came a time of glitz, glamor, and lavish lifestyles, including parties and events. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of how a group of wealthy individuals gets wrapped up in conflicts while trying to convey their wealth to one another. Jay Gatsby, the main character, became wealthy by getting involved in the stock market after the WWI, where he originally fell in love with Daisy. Daisy Buchanan is married to a wealthy man named Tom Buchanan, who later resents Gatsby, leading to his contribution to Gatsby’s death. A whirlwind of events occurs after the reunion of Gatsby and Daisy that is furthered with the symbolic messages created by Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald uses a variety of symbolic messages, including the green light of Daisy’s porch, the valley of ashes, and the East and West Egg, to help with the development of the plot and to give the novel...
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...Color Symbolism Rough Draft Throughout life a person experiences and sees many different colors. All colors send a hidden message to a person. The message can be based on that person’s emotion or what they just simply think the color’s message is. “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions”, this was said by Pablo Picasso. What he means by this is that colors can and will have a very big effect on your emotions and actions. Looking at certain colors can change your whole mood very quickly whether it’s great or awful. Some dark colors could cause you to be sad, angry, or gloomy. But when a person looks at bright, beautiful colors it can make them very happy, friendly and social. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby,...
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...audience with a novel with intricate symbolism. Nick Carroway, the protagonist, has recently moved from the Midwest to get his career started in New York. He lives on the island of West Egg the poorer side of town, across from East Egg the wealthier side of town. In East Egg are where his pompous and snobbish friends Tom and Daisy live. They gossip and party a lot, all while Tom is cheating on Daisy with a lady named Myrtle Wilson. Everyone knows except for Daisy and Mr. Wilson. Meanwhile, Nick lives next door to a mysterious man named Gatsby, who throws extravagant parties, but yet no one knows anything about him. Throughout the book Nick learns about the mysterious Gatsby and what it is like to live around people who believe in a conceited world of indecency. Fitzgerald involves symbolism into the heart of the novel so strongly that it is necessary to read passages of the book more than once to full understand. The creative yet simplistic styling of this book is a major reason why The Great Gatsby is one of the classics of the 20th century. Throughout the book, three themes dominate the text of The Great Gatsby. These themes include the loss of time, appearance and characterization, and perspective. The word time appears many times in the novel either by itself or in a compound word. Fitzgerald obviously wanted to emphasize the importance of time to the overall layout of the book. Time is most important to the character, Gatsby. Gatsby's relationship with time is a major aspect...
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...Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, there is an obvious hiatus between the different social classes. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy man who resides in West Egg. Before Gatsby moved to West Egg, he had a relationship with Daisy Buchanan, who is Nick Carraway’s cousin. Gatsby went away from Daisy so he could fight in the war. While Gatsby was away, Daisy married Tom Buchanan and eventually moved to East Egg, where all the old money is. Gatsby moves to West Egg, where all the new money resides, so he could get back with Daisy. Between West and East Egg is an area called the valley of ashes, which all the working class and poor people live. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism and characterization to create the theme of the disconnect between the social classes. Fitzgerald uses symbolism for the valley of ashes to display the disconnect between the social classes. The valley of ashes is a poor area which connects West Egg to East Egg. It is full of “men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (Fitzgerald 23). The valley of ashes symbolizes the poor people who live in the dirty...
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...her death, and it leads on up to Gatsby’s death in the end, “As the color of the blood, it is inevitable associated with the violence caused by the human animals who prey upon Gatsby, what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams.” (Fitzgerald) Everyone in the novel had betrayed Gatsby, everyone except Nick. Nick, was the only person who listened to Gatsby, even when he thought Daisy would leave Tom and come back to him, she did not. Daisy was very discombobulated, she knew that it would be wrong to leave Tom and run off to be with Gatsby. She knew that her life would have been better if she had married Gatsby...
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...man are created equal and that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.” F. Scott Fitzgerald created this story to reveal that people in the 20’s were in a pursuit of selfish delight, and the equality of people was based on their financial assets. The line that states all mean are created equal is broken in the scene where Tom is bashing Gatsby for how he became wealthy. He calls Gatsby a crook, and in this in turn leads to retaliation from Gatsby and a fight almost breaking out. Two mean that hold such high class and dignity, yelling and screaming at each other, making threats, is in no way what the Declaration of Independence meant by “all mean are created equal.” The big parties, booze, and elegant clothing do not make these people happy, no one was happy. The Great Gatsby provides examples of loneliness and despair created by the moral or cultural declines by the excessive indulgence in pleasure of luxury. Fitzgerald uses...
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...Jay Gatsby, the owner of a huge mansion and host of frequent and lavish parties. Although prohibition has made alcohol illegal, Gatsby always has a surplus available at his wild social gatherings. As Nick starts to spend more time with Gatsby, he begins to learn about Gatsby’s past, his strange profession, and his love for Nick’s cousin, Daisy. The story that unfolds truly highlights the scandalous and risky nature of the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald had encompassed many literary devices in order to make this novel effective and more appealing. He has used techniques such as imagery, similes and the strongest one is symbolism. Fitzgerald has very smartly constructed his novel. "And only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.”(page 76) is an example of simile used in the text. This sentence suggests that Daisy was holding onto that letter until there wasn't really anything left of it. The letter obviously meant a whole lot to her if she took a bath with it. A representative of imagery used in the novel is "Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.” This sentence paints a picture in our heads of Gatsby feeling cold with his hands in his pockets, while standing in a puddle of water and staring a Daisy. The most effective technique used in this novel is symbolism. Some symbols include the two ‘flower girls’, Daisy and Myrtle. A daisy...
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...The Color Symbolism in “The Great Gatsby” A literary masterpiece such as The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, creates a vision of the typical American prosperous lifestyle through color and images. Fitzgerald cleverly uses colors to paint a picture of the privileged and twisted life of Jay Gatsby. In the novel the narrator Nick tells the story of Jay Gatsby, who throws elaborate parties to try to catch the attention of his true love Daisy. Nick also tells of the affairs and the misfortunes between the characters that would eventually led to Gatsby’s death. The prominent colors used in the novel (gold/ yellow, blue, white/ silver) help to create the image of wealth and old money, intricateness, and the multilayered personalities of the...
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...The Great Gatsby’s third chapter mainly focuses on Nick’s first encounter, with the shrouded character of Jay Gatsby. Nick meets Gatsby at one of his gaudy parties; at which Nick seems to be “one of the few guests who had actually been invited”. Nick, of course, is employed by Fitzgerald and used to frame this chapter. Our established retrospective narrator writes in the subjective first person, meaning we only get his point of view of events; this peripheral style of narration generates intrigue within the reader, as Fitzgerald deliberately doesn’t want us guessing everything .In Jay McInerney’s article on ‘Gatsby’, he writes “Fitzgerald’s best narrators always seem to be partaking of the festivities even as they shiver outside with their noses pressed up against the glass.” I have to concur with McInerney here, as this quote sums up Nick’s narrative style completely. Nick is “within and without”, constantly on the outskirts of events, observing. From this it would be easy to conclude that Nick is a very dull narrator, whose appearance in the novel is only to mask Fitzgerald; so that Fitzgerald can get his opinions and views on this hedonistic lifestyle across. However, that is not the case, as Nick accommodates many aspects which pair with a good narrator. Nick is undoubtedly “one of the few honest people that I have ever known” and through his powerful quality of reservation, Fitzgerald allows other characters to express themselves and develop. This makes the novel more accessible...
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...Gatsby and Daisy knew each other when they were younger. Sadly Daisy ended up with Tom before she ever thought about being with Gatsby. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there were multiple uses of color as symbolism in references to going forward, being rich and carefree, and foreseeing death. When someone sees a green light, they tend to move forward. Gatsby was so in love with Daisy that he could never move forward with his life unless he had her. Often Gatsby pointed to a green light across the bay because it reminded him of Daisy (92). Everything about Daisy screams the color green. Gatsby even said that “her voice is money” (120). While in attendance of one of Gatsby’s parties she mentions to Jordan and Nick that she would be passing out green cards all night (104). In other words, she is fine with sneaking off to be with Gatsby when she is supposed to be with her husband. Gold and silver are some of the most expensive elements out there today. In The Great Gatsby, more of the wealthier people that would come to Gatsby’s parties were wearing gold and silver dresses. To show that they were the in the upper class society. However, when Gatsby was younger, he was not all that...
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