the great gatby
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. Ga
Gatsby reaching out across the bay represents his desire for those things as well as Daisy, whose house is just behind the light. a single green light, minute and far away" (Fitzgerald 25-26). Another symbol in this book is the large billboard with the eyes of Dr. Some may even say that since the doctor had long abandoned the area, God might have left, also!. His car is very elaborate, "It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool!-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns"(Fitzgerald 68). New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995, "¶1925 ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. This is the image of Gatsby with his arms stretched out towards the green light across the bay, which is repeated at the end of the novel, "fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbors mansionK. Eckleburg on it: Above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. They look from no face but, instead from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose (Fitzgerald 27). The green light represents hope, land, and money. There are many examples of symbolism used in the novel The Great Gatsby by F.
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