York City in the Nineteen-Twenties. In this novel there are many images that help to pull the story together. Three of those images I feel are very significant to the story. The single green light on Daisy’s dock that Gatsby spends countless nights staring at across the lake is‚ in my opinion‚ the most significant image in the book. The light represents Gatsby’s unattainable dream to be with Daisy. He is so close to her yet so far. He fails to grasp this dream with her. I believe the green light
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also categorized as a gambler‚ and if this is whom Gatsby is working with‚ there is no doubt that Gatsby is in on the illegal activity surrounding Wolfshiem. To prove to Daisy‚ Nick‚ and Jordan that Gatsby participates in illegal‚ Tom has Jay Gatsby investigated: “He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter” (Fitzgerald 141). This is illegal because of prohibition surrounding this era. It is also hinted that Gatsby is
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depth meaning. This is done so the audience can feel the emotion and thought process of the characters. Without this symbolism of color used throughout the novel‚ readers will not acquire the right connection to the characters. Life in color gives people an advantage to a greater understanding of emotions that are felt day-by-day. Delicate‚ honorable and innocence are used to specify the color white. Fitzgerald uses the color white to represent purity. Two of
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920’s‚ a period of American History known as the "Roaring Twenties". The Great Gatsby is the story of the extravagant lifestyle of the rich and famous of New York in this time of peace and prosperity. The story is told by Nick Carraway‚ a young bonds salesman who has just moved to the wealthy but unfashionable area known as the "West Egg". However‚ behind the lavish displays of wealth and spectacular gatherings‚ the author exposes many social
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F. Scott Fitzgerald carefully crafted his novel The Great Gatsby in a way that left the plot open-ended and specific details about characters were absent which forced the reader to draw his/her own conclusions. This allowed Baz Luhrmann‚ the director of the 2013 film franchise of The Great Gatsby‚ to add details to the story in order to make it more clear for those viewers who had not yet read the book. Baz Luhrmann accurately portrayed the characters of the novel in his film by emphasizing their
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rich are rich” -Anonymous. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens‚ he exploits a hard time in the 1700s where the rich are rich because they exploit the poor. This raises a question to the audience‚ What action can be taken place to create an equal society? Dickens answers this question by placing this story in the middle of the French Revolution where people are are arrested because of their social class‚ presumed guilty without trial‚ then killed without reason. All making the
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the most money. This is represented in the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ in this novel a young man named Jay Gatsby had everything everyone wanted except one portion of the American dream. That was love‚ Gatsby loved a woman named daisy but was sent off to war‚ and came back later to find out that his love was just across the bay married to another wealthy man‚ Tom Buchanan. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many colors in the novel “The Great Gatsby” to highlight
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directed by Baz Luhrmann. The movie represents the novel ‘’The Great Gatsby’’ written by Scott Fitzgerald. It is Scott’s analysis on the American society during the Roaring Twenties. The characters represent the American Dream. The main-characters in this story are Jay Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Daisy Buchanan. When Nick Carraway moves to New-York he buys a house on West Egg‚ Long Island. His neighbour is the wealthy and mysterious man named Jay Gatsby. As weeks go by‚ Nick gets an invitation to
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to it. Person A: In my opinion‚ this 45 year old man became homeless either because he lost his job due to maybe an injury at work or he was laid off. Therefore‚
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a literary work. Sometimes it seems that on every page there is at least one example of symbolism or imagery. The symbolism and imagery in this book really represents what it was like to live at that point in time. One example of imagery is Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes. Doctor T.J. Eckleburg is a man on a billboard that looks out over the valley of ashes. This is eerily similar to the way that God looks upon the world. “But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over
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