Chris Caron Great Gatsby Colors 3/23/13 The Valley of Ashes provides the scene for the majority of the use of the color gray in The Great Gatsby. Gray most prominently and obviously symbolizes the hopelessness that thrives within the Valley of Ashes. Fitzgerald describes the Valley of Ashes as "...a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys...and ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir
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Color Symbolism In The Great Gatsby Color symbolism refers to the use of colors as a symbol throughout culture. There is also color psychology‚ these refers to the effect of colors on the human behavior and feelings. Colors can symbolize many different things. Artists use colors in their paintings when they want you to see what they are trying to express. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is full of symbols and symbolic ideas. Fitzgerald portrays important messages in the novel by his symbolic
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Symbolism is often found in various types of writing and is used simply to enhance the tone of a work. While he uses many different tactics and technics to express his ideas‚ in The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald defaults to using symbolism to express both the varying moods according to the situation as well as to express how the wealth of a person affects the opinion of others. One example of this is found when Gatsby wears the power colors of wealth to show Daisy how important he is. Fitzgerald
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the train. Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to New York City‚ to the Morningside Heights apartment he keeps for his affair. Here they have an impromptu party with Myrtle’s sister‚ Catherine‚ and a couple named McKee. Catherine has bright red hair‚ wears a great deal of makeup‚ and tells Nick that she has heard that Jay Gatsby is the nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm‚ the ruler of Germany during World War I. The McKees‚ who live downstairs‚ are a horrid couple: Mr. McKee is pale and feminine‚ and Mrs. McKee
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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 his body‚ symbolizing his past. The dust on the man’s
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Once he has met Estella‚ the young maiden who drives his childhood fixation‚ his way of life progressively becomes more apparent making his antipathy towards himself and others more apparent than ever. Meeting the young maiden quickly makes him regret being a “simple” blacksmith and regretting that Mr.Joe raised him so. On page (67) when they’re playing cards Pip calls them Jacks instead of knaves much to Estella’s entertainment and distaste‚ ostracizing his lack of knowledge. This leads Pip to
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Dickens uses this description of the Havisham Manor to give Pip’s impression of surrealness surrounding Miss Havisham and her house. Pip has just been apprenticed to Joe and goes to visit Miss Havisham‚ and‚ as he walks home‚ he reflects on the decrepitness and the age of the house and its contents. As the sentence progresses‚ Dickens chooses to order his descriptions in increasing intensity of spookiness and specificity‚ seemingly ‘zooming’ in to smaller and smaller objects and ending with the
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analyzing and comparing The Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations‚ by J.D. Salinger and Charles Dickens respectively‚ one usually stops and ponders‚ what can these two novels possibly have in common? Well I can tell you‚ quite a lot. To begin with‚ both are fictional autobiographies‚ narrated personally by the protagonists‚ that is Holden and Pip. However‚ regardless of the fact that they are both narrated in the first person‚ one‚ Great Expectations is a full life story‚ and you can tell by the very
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In the novel Great Expectations‚ the author Charles Dickens uses the first person narrative throughout the novel. The first person narrative is the main character‚ Pip. However‚ in this book the first person narrative comes in a retrospective form‚ with Pip looking back on his life. The retrospective point of view is key in this story for the reaction of the readers to the plot. In Great Expectations‚ the retrospective first person point of view makes the main character Pip unreliable‚ makes the
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Writing just a few years after the end of the Great War‚ Fitzgerald takes as his theme the hedonism of a materialistic society in which spiritual values are dead. His eponymous hero throws parties on Sundays (to which ‘the world and its mistress’ flocked) because he hopes that Daisy‚ the object of his faith‚ hope and love‚ will come to him. In her absence‚ he stretches out his arms towards the green light at the end of her dock and‚ as Fitzgerald makes repeated references to it‚ that light
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