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    F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many symbols in The Great Gatsby to show the reader what live was like in the early 1900s. Some symbols show Gatsby is greedy. Others show things like how Daisy and Tom are old money while Gatsby is new money. Fitzgerald also utilizes water details and imagery to both mirror and foreshadow tragic events in The Great Gatsby. When a body of water is depicted in the novel‚ something dreadful is foreshadowed. Bodies of water appear in different sizes‚ yet they all still foreshadow

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    The use of colour in the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald uses colour throughout the novel to create ideas and personify events with an emotion or idea. A good example of this is the colour green. Green represents envy and greed‚ and Gatsby frequently looks towards the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. This represents his longing for Daisy. The green light represents the American dream and achieving your goals‚ which in itself is greed. Gatsby looks longingly at the green light – ‘he stretched out

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    The Great Gatsby is a novel that depicts Jay Gatsby chasing his American Dream. Although Gatsby did it by illegal means‚ Fitzgerald honors Gatsby for the effort he put forth in trying to achieve his American Dream of winning Daisy back. With the use of symbolism‚ syntax to create a respectful tone towards Gatsby‚ and a mood of honor‚ Fitzgerald admires Gatsby for chasing an unattainable American Dream and almost succeeding. Symbolism is a major key to Fitzgerald’s novel and he uses it to represent

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    Out of all the great symbolism in The Great Gatsby‚ weather is one of the more unique symbols. Fitzgerald is able to create many different meanings for the weather. In The Great Gatsby‚ F.Scott Fitzgerald uses the weather to develop the plot‚ show conflicts and to help develop characters and their feelings. In the next three paragraphs I will go more in depth of theses examples. Fitzgerald uses the weather to help develop the plot in The Great Gatsby. At major points in the novel it appears that

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    Discuss the use of contrast as a literary device in The Great Gatsby byJeannette Ng 5.15 In the book‚ contrast is widely used to bring about the theme of class as well as to greater emphasize the characteristics of a particular character. The book contrasts the setting‚ West and East egg‚ as well as the characters‚ Gatsby and Tom‚ Wilson and Tom and Gatsby and Tom. 1Gatsby is contrasted with Tom in several ways. Tom is overpowering while Gatsby is more reserved. Tom is described as having ‘shining

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    1926 novel The Great Gatsby or Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Within these novels it can be seen that similar semiotic techniques have been employed to foreshadow specific plot points in the narrative‚ particularly when noticing their use of place and setting. Thus‚ both Fitzgerald and Austen utilise the place and setting of their novels as a catalyst or mode of attraction for the characters by using specific grammatical choices. Throughout this essay the metaphorical use of place‚ particularly

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    In “The Great Gatsby‚” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of language serves to develop the characters of Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. Fitzgerald’s use of specific details‚ particularly the juxtaposition of those details pertaining to Myrtle‚ portrays her as contradictory and superficial and Tom as a bullish and arrogant. Fitzgerald’s diction‚ dually connoting prosperity and deficiency‚ conveys Myrtle’s false sense of egotism and affluence and enforces the narrator’s disdain for both Tom and Myrtle. Myrtle’s

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    Joad family‚ Gatsby‚ and IM are reborn it leads to a sense of blind hope. When the Joads arrive in California‚ the water that they bathe in symbolizes a new start for the family. They believe that California will be a place where satisfaction and happiness is achieved. Steinbeck writes‚ “He cupped his hands full of water and rubbed his face...dusty water ran out of his hair and streaked his neck” (284). The “water” represents purity and holiness and when he washes himself “dusty water” runs down

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    yellows can lift the spirits. Without one word‚ a driver approaching a red traffic light knows to stop. Colors are representative of many things. In his novel The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism throughout as a major device in thematic and character development. Gatsby “stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way‚ trembling” as he reached for the green light at the end of a dock across the bay. That dock belonged to Daisy Buchanan‚ the object of Jay Gatsby’s

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ exposes the corruption and greed of the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald is able to captivate readers’ attentions through his employment of color symbolism. Fitzgerald portrays important messages in the novel by his symbolic use of colors. Colors play an important role in Fitzgerald’s descriptions of the lives of Jay Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway and many of the other characters in the novel. Fitzgerald uses the colors white‚ yellow‚ and green to express

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