the great gatsby
The Use of Symbolism in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is about a man named Gatsby and his struggle to attain the American Dream in 1920's Long Island. He fights to get his dream woman and to do so, he must first become rich. Unfortunately, he doesn't really go about it the right way; he takes part in some illegal activities with some quite sinister characters, such as Meyer Wolfshiem. The corruption of Gatsby's dream and his struggle to attain his dream are shown by F. Scott Fitzgerald through the use of symbolism, such as Gatsby's car, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, and Gatsby stretching his arms out towards the green light across the bay. Gatsby has a car that is an important symbol in this novel.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995, 1925. The best example of symbolism in this book is the image of Gatsby at the end of chapter one, because it contains many symbols in one image, which illustrates my final point. That billboard represents the eyes of God looking out over the vast wasteland of moral corruption and dying hope. Gatsby reaching out across the bay represents his desire for those things as well as Daisy, whose house is just behind the light. They look from no face but, instead from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose (Fitzgerald 27). There are many examples of symbolism used in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. The green light represents hope, land, and money.
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