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    him lead up to Gatsby’s somewhat unexpected and delayed introduction. The buildup serves to represent the mystery that seems to always surround Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy’s encounter at tea is significant because Gatsby has meticulously built his life around the possibility of one day being reunited with the girl he fell in love with five years ago. Gatsby is so incredibly love-struck that he lets his guard down‚ allowing the reader a glimpse of what hides behind the extravagance. The climax

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    quote that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses in The Great Gatsby. This quote is greatly associated with Gatsby and how he is trying to strive to succeed the American Dream. There were three colors that help exemplifies the American Dream and that are linked with Gatsby would be blue which represents fantasy‚ yellow signifies falsehood‚ red symbolizes danger and anger. As blue embodies the fantasy and the new money that Gatsby was showing throughout the whole book. Gatsby throughout the book showed us he had everything

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    Symbolism is a figure of speech that is used when an author wants to create a certain emotion in his literal work. It usually is an object‚ person‚ and situation to refer a bigger picture and idea other than just an object. The green light on Daisy’s dock‚ represents Gatsby’s ultimate goal of reuniting with Daisy and having her love forever. It acts as a beacon to him‚ reminding him of his goal and focusing all of his attention on achieving it. He literally cannot take his eyes off of the beacon

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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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    Fitzgerald’s book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ mean much more than just a physical description. They are symbols and give a deeper meaning to things such as characters‚ or places‚ or objects. Colors show more emotion and represent themes throughout the whole novel. White can be tied to carelessness. While green can be connected to Gatsby’s life dream. Gold shows the riches of people and their pretty lives. Gray conveys the misery of hardships in book. White is very prominent in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald associates

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    In chapter one of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces the story using detailed imagery to create a mood for the book. The narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ just moved to West Egg‚ Long Island‚ a neighborhood of up and coming young‚ wealthy people. While Nick himself isn’t over the top wealthy‚ he can afford a modest house next door to Gatsby’s mansion. Since he is in New York now‚ Carraway goes to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan at their posh home across the bay in East Egg

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    Bryan Cubillos Per. 2 Weather Does weather affect the mood of situations? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are moments where the weather sets a mood or follows the emotion of the novel. Many people Change their mood in certain weather conditions and in this novel the weather is symbolic for emotion or mood in the novel. Fitzgerald uses the weather to help set the mood of several situation or emotion throughout the novel. Weather is symbolic in this novel as seen

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    The Great Gatsby introduces many color symbols that have their own meaning and relevance to the story. Fitzgerald used a lot of colors to give an insight to the lives of the characters. The color green represents the future. The color yellow represents money and death. Lastly‚ the color white represents innocence. Each color symbol has a meaning and functions together to support the central theme of the book which is gaining wealth and reaching your dreams or in other words the American Dream.

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    Write about the ways the story is told in Chapter 5. Chapter 5 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ creates a contrasting tone to what has previously occurred in the novel. Fitzgerald generally creates a surreal atmosphere in order to control the manner in which many readers approach the events within the novel. Fitzgerald’s use of first person narrative enforces a judgemental perspective upon the reader‚ although Nick Carraway appears to set aside all opinions and therefore simply overlook

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    Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald uses the motif of affairs to show development in Daisy Buchanan’s character. As a reader slowly pieces together what is the love puzzle of this novel‚ it becomes clear to them Daisy’s true self. Starting off the novel Fitzgerald uses Tom’s affairs with Daisy(his wife) and Myrtle(his mistress) to show how Tom treats Daisy. He is very sexist towards not only Daisy but also myrtle. "Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now‚"(131) this

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