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    Color Imagery – Yellow Writers often use a variety of literary devices in their literature to relate to the themes of their stories. Imagery is just one of the many that are used to create the structure for the literary pieces. Imagery can be used to form images in the reader’s mind‚ appealing to the human senses. F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the mind behind the American Modernist novel The Great Gatsby‚ uses a specific form of this literary device‚ which is color imagery‚ to make a more meaningful visual

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    Moving on can be a near impossible truth to accept. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ this idea was used to convey a love expressed between two characters. The story was narrated by Nick Carraway‚ a man who became friends with a neighbor by the name of Jay Gatsby. Nick’s cousin‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ and her husband‚ Tom Buchanan‚ lived across the lake from them in a neighborhood referred to as East Egg. As Nick began to know Gatsby‚ he found how he loved the woman across the lake. The novella

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    daisies in their hair felt that the flower made them feel free from guilt‚ sin and corruption. In the story The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Daisy the character) and Daisies (the flowers) are of great significance‚ as well as the colors yellow and white‚ which are sporadically spread throughout the book to define the surroundings of life. Fitzgerald explains the book through what colors mean and symbolize‚ to give a deeper hidden meaning that you have to search for. In the story there is this

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    Color is a drive behind the world. A thing that helps people describe what something is‚ who a person‚ and what kind of person they may be. Color is more than just a look or a style‚ it can describe who a person is beneath the color coat they may wear. Color determines who a person is in many stories and goes deeper than thought. The extensive use of Color is key in The Great Gatsby and helps find out who people really are. Gray is a color used in The Great Gatsby that describes hopelessness

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    Analyzing Symbolism in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about corruption and life in the raring 1920’s. In Fitzgerald’s master piece of a story‚ he presents a life learning and exciting story that any person of any age can enjoy‚ but if the reader really puts the effort into “reading between the lines” they will grasp the symbolic meanings that he uses throughout the whole story. Fitzgerald uses these symbols to provide images/representations about what it was

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    English 4/5  30‚ 05‚ 2014  Mr. Hernandez    Color Association in The Great Gatsby  The color I have chosen to represent in the Great Gatsby is the color grey. The reason I  chose this color is because there’s a lot in the story that explains this color. The color  grey in this book represents dull or not important. There was many items in the book  that were unimportant and assumed to be the color grey.    The items I chose to represent this color shows as followed: "grey little villages in  France" (p

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    Great Gatsby Essay Option Two F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby uses the color green to show the artificiality of the dream lived by Gatsby‚ and the motif of Gatsby’s car as Nick’s dream and how it covers the bleakness of the characters lives. Both Gatsby and Nick have a lot of ambitious hope at the start of the story. As the characters live for their dream‚ they start to see a little bit of the reality showing through their dreams and wonder how real their dream world is. Finally‚ the

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    of Symbolism in The Great Gatsby A symbol in literary work can be described as “something that represents something else by association‚ resemblance‚ or convention‚ especially a material object used to represent something invisible. Symbolism is used greatly through out the novel The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the symbols portrayed in the novel provide great significance in the development of and the fate of its characters. Three major attributes to symbolism this

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    The Great Gatsby (Symbols) Throughout the book “The Great Gatsby”‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald finds different ways to incorporate symbolism that ties into the different characters and their different relationships with one another. The symbolism that he creates really shows how the american dream is never really possible. The end of the dock is an important place for Gatsby because‚ that is where he is able to see the green light on the end of Daisy’s dock‚ yet he can’t reach it. “Involuntarily I glanced

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    Skylar Finan Dr. Shannon Zinck ENC 1102-73999 December 7‚ 2015 Symbolism in “The Great Gatsby” In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ he uses symbolism in such detailed way. Fitzgerald integrates symbolism into the book so well that it is necessary to read it several times to fully understand it. Maureen Corrigan quotes “Many of us first read it when we were too young to fully comprehend its power.” Even a critic on the book itself had to read the story many times to fully understand all that

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