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The Great Gatsby
Symbols/Imagery
Green Light
Green:Green always be used to symbolize the hope and desire. In this passage, green exactly symbolized the desire from Gatsby for money and love.
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Houses
Houses ware material wealth. From the details in the book, there were lots of span-new books in his house. This is pretty ironic to Gatsby as an upstart.
The color
White: White is the symbol for Daisy. In many scenes, she dressed in white. The white seemingly symbolizes pureness, beauty. In fact,white symbolized the vanity and Indifference of Daisy.
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Location" West and East"
People came to East to seek for wealth and money. So the mid west seems like a bleak margin. And those two region were contrast and it shows the conflict between two class.The split between the eastern and western regions of the United States is mirrored in Gatsby by the divide between East Egg and West Egg:
Character
Nick
He has dual personality. He is an amiable and is good at listening to others ostensibly. However, he remember everything any small events.
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Tom
A rich man who loves sports very much.He is lofty, arbitrary，bossy playboy.
Daisy
She is beautiful, fearful, fragile. Desire for enjoyment and wealth. She values riches highly.
Naratives
Part II
For his love, Gatsby began to develop his business and company. Finally, he bought a huge house on Long Island. He still want to recover his love with Daisy. But accidentally, Tom's mistress was killed by Daisy with car and frame Gatsby with it. Finally, Gatsby was killed and Daisy did not attend the funeral. Nick has identified the filth around rich people and he decided to leave New York.
Part I
A poor farm boy Gatsby want to become a wealthy and successful man one day. He worked hard with fuel and he was promoted step by step. During the time he was in military, he fall in love with a beautiful girl- Daisy. But after him came back to New York, he found Daisy has married with a playboy Tom.
Theme(s）
The story deals with the limits and realities of America's myths of social and class mobility; and the inevitably hopeless lower class aspirations to rise above the stations of their birth.
The Great Gatsby as a "cautionary tale of the decadent downside of the American dream." The story deals with human aspiration to start over again, social politics and its brutality and also betrayal, of one's own ideals and of people. Using elements of irony and tragic ending, it also delves into themes of excesses of the rich, and recklessness of youth.