HOW ARE
CARS A SYMBOL IN "THE GREAT GATSBY?"
Cars are a symbol in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
novel “The Great Gatsby” because they represent status, wealth and power. Jay, Tom and George associate cars with
their place in society.
People choose to display their wealth in many
different ways, and Jay Gatsby decides one way he can exhibit his wealth is
with his car. He owns a 1928 Rolls Royce, which is a definite symbol of status.
Jay Gatsby had no problem disclosing his wealth to the public, and the car he
drove was just another way to express himself and his money to the masses. The
symbol of the car as wealth is also important to Tom and George as they
exchange words over a car that symbolizes their relationships with Myrtle. Tom
offers to sell his car to George, but George does not realize that Tom never
intends to sell the car. Tom eventually confesses to Nick that he believes
George is “so dumb he doesn't know he’s alive.” The car in the story of The
Great Gatsby represents Tom’s deceitfulness and immorality.
GREEN
LIGHT SYMBOLISM IN "THE GREAT GATSBY"
The purpose of colour symbolism in "The
Great Gatsby" is to convey the different emotions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's
characters and to depict the societal mind-set of the time.
"The Great Gatsby" is a novel set in
a fictional Long Island community and makes use of colour symbolism. Fitzgerald
used various colours to depict the emotions of his characters as well as to
convey a sense of the societal mind-set of the upper-class society where the
story takes place.
The green light at the end of Daisy's dock
is the symbol of Gatsby's hopes and dreams. It represents everything
that haunts and beckons Gatsby: the physical and emotional distance between him
and Daisy, the gap between the past and the present, the promises of the
future, and the powerful lure of that other green stuff he craves—money.
Situated at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock
and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, the green light represents
Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and
in Chapter 1 he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead
him to his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with
the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized
ideal. In Chapter 9, Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out
of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation.
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