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    The Great Gatsby Essay: Analyze Fitzgerald’s symbolic use of colour Colour‚ a means of differentiation‚ understanding‚ and a sense of perception. There are about 16.8 million colours known in the English language and when you see each everyone it usually always brings a thought to mind. Colours are very useful in everyday life it makes everything that much more real but specifically colour can be used as a way of showing the real story. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses colour symbolically

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    Great Gatsby Thesis

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    Thesis: The pursuit of the American Dream is a dominant theme throughout The Great Gatsby‚ which is carried out in various ways by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ how the author represents this theme through his characters and their actions is one small aspect of it. Fitzgerald’s dominant theme in The Great Gatsby focuses on the corruption of the American Dream. By analyzing high society during the1920s through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway‚ the author reveals that the American Dream has transformed

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis

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    The Great Gatsby: Plot Analysis Our narrator Nick Carraway is back from World War I and is renting a house in West Egg‚ a small but fancy town on Long Island. His cousin Daisy and her ex-football player husband Tom live across the bay in fancier East Egg. Jay Gatsby‚ Nick’s next door neighbor‚ is a wealthy newcomer who throws large parties weekly‚ during which his guests are happy to drink his (illegal) booze while snubbing him for being “nouveau riche” and possibly involved in some shady activities

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    Color Great Gatsby

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    It was once said by the great abstract artist Pablo Picasso that colors‚ like features‚ follow the changes of the emotions. That is exactly what F Scott Fitzgerald shows and does in his popular novel The Great Gatsby. Readers follow the journey of Nick Caraway‚ a new comer to New York City‚ where he learns of the rags and riches of the 1920’s. Scott sprinkles symbolism throughout the book to get his readers thinking. He particularly likes using colors to fulfill this deed. Fitzgerald uses the colors

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    Giacomo Giorgi CP English 11 Weather Does weather affect the mood of situations? In the novel “The Great Gatsby‚” by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ there are moments where atmospheric conditions set a mood of follows the emotions and action of the novel. This technique is also used quite a bit in many other novels‚ and even in movies. Weather‚ although it has almost subliminal results‚ tend to enhance the feeling evoked by the story in the movie or novel. This technique was used a lot by William Shakespeare

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    The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald ← Key Facts → full title  ·  The Great Gatsby author  · F. Scott Fitzgerald type of work  · Novel genre  · Modernist novel‚ Jazz Age novel‚ novel of manners language  · English time and place written  · 1923–1924‚ America and France date of first publication  · 1925 publisher  · Charles Scribner’s Sons narrator  · Nick Carraway; Carraway not only narrates the story but implies that he is the book’s author point of view  · Nick Carraway narrates

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    The Great Gatsby Essay

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    Money  symbolize  certain  statuses  in  the  world.  In  the  novel  “The  Great  Gatsby”  by  F.  Scott  Fitzgerald  portrays  these  views  of  money  among  the  characters  in  the  novel.  Personally‚  I  think  that  money  doesn’t   buy  you  happiness.  It  may  make  you  feel  happy  for  a  short  period  of  time  but  not  forever.  Happiness  is a feeling from within‚ money doesn’t  relate to it. In The Great Gatsby‚ it proves that  it  doesn’t  matter  how  wealthy  you  are  you  can’t 

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    The Great Gatsby Color

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    often times think of it meaning or signifying envy or sadness but that is not always the case. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are many different colors used that signify much deeper things than just using the color to describe something. Fitzgerald’s emphasis on the green light throughout the novel plays a large role in relation to the love that Jay Gatsby has always had for Daisy. Throughout the novel the color green is brought up quite frequently. Fitzgerald uses

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    Faces In The Great Gatsby

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    Faces of Jay Gatsby In the film and novel The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby is a character with many faces‚ but essentially he has a few characteristics that do stand out. Gatsby shows the characteristics of a virtuous‚ enigmatic‚ and buoyant man. These characteristics shows Gatsby’s true self. Although he may seem corrupt and deceitful‚ Jay Gatsby distincts himself as a virtuous man. Gatsby created a belief in which he considered himself as an innocent‚ pure human being‚. Gatsby conserved

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    The Great Gatsby Seminar

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    The Great Gatsby by Cooper‚ Niamh‚ Alex‚ Will and Jakob Daisy’s Voice • ‘a deathless song’ - her seemingly eternal youth • goal of an eternal‚ perfect life relates back to the common idea of the American dream • Daisy’s voice is ‘full of money’ - reflects the kind of life she lives. • ‘high in a white palace the Kings daughter‚ the golden girl’. • symbolise the hollowness and materialistic nature of the upper class. The Green Light • represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future • Gatsby

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