Great Gatsby: Transportation Imagery
Obviously, Fitzgerald uses cars to characterize. The protagonist Jay Gatsby drives a car of a "rich cream color, bright with nickel (...), with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns." (Fitzgerald, p. 70) It simply is a vehicle that could have sprung from a teenager's dream and is driven by someone who did not change his imagination although he is grown up now. Malcolm Cowley calls it "West Egg on wheels" (Seiters, p. 58), which is ironically but true. West Egg, the area where Gatsby lives, may be a place for those who are wealthy but do not have the proper background to be accepted by the snobbish East Egg inhabitants, but that does not mean that it is less arrogant, less boastful or less decadent than East Egg. Its color 'cream' is a blend of virgin white, which stands for the man in love, and yellow, which implies his other side: the boot
He deals with cars and so the couple lives close by his garage. When she leaves a borrowed car in the rain and denies it, Nick remembers the article about a golf tournament she cheated in to win. This tells the reader on the one hand that Tom has undergone no altering at all and that he will continue to hurt people physically and mentally. 58)Another character that is closely connected with cars is the golf-pro Jordan Baker. After Myrtle's death, the color is referred to as plain yellow: the pureness that white had added has vanished. On the other hand, it is implied that he leaves the scene and therefore the past fast. Nick and Jordan's dialogue can be summarized to the warning that careless drivers are dangerous. 83) His front-passenger, a chamber maiden, broke her arm during this incident. Wilson himself is going to turn into a symbol of death in the end when he becomes the murderer of Gatsby and commits suicide as well. 60)Concluding I want to sum up that Gatsby's car that stands for his dream eventually becomes the reason for the death of three people including himself. 60)Even the aftermath of the sad event demonstrates character traits, e.
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