The Great Gatsby Imagery Analysis

Imagery is used in writing when a writer trying to emphasis a specific key element, or portray a clear picture for the reader to understand. Throughout the book, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses imagery to paint a vivid picture for the reader. Imagery is used to describe specific key elements of a story which is shown in The Great Gatsby. Imagery was portrayed for the reader especially when it comes to the setting and characters. In the movie however, imagery was shown both similar and differently. The movie focuses a lot on the setting and charters but also shows imagery of other small factors. Imagery was both present in both the book and the movie, both the movie and book had similar routes of incorporating the imageries.

In The Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald, Gatsby releases an ultimately superficial persona to the world due to his obsession with Daisy. Through the examination of Gatsby’s smile, one can see that his charm is merely a façade hiding his past. The subtle descriptions of Gatsby’s morals, in relation to the effect that Daisy has on him, demonstrates that Gatsby is not all that ‘great’. Through Gatsby’s attempt to achieve the love of the unattainable Daisy, he never realizes that Daisy being ‘nice’ masks the pain she causes him. Because Gatsby’s hopelessly romantic nature was caused by meeting Daisy, Gatsby was later portrayed as superficially charming and well-poised, thus suggesting that Daisy was the main reason for his questionable character.

Gatsby is the crucial character, his intentions are the plot of the novel,yearning for Daisy to love him.”He looked around him wildly,as if the past were here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.”(Fitzgerald 116). With Fitzgerald use of metaphor and personification to convey how Gatsby is becoming intimate with

Life is not always what it seems, but is constantly fooled by metaphorical masks people wear. The appearance of many of the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby differs greatly from their actual selves. The use of illusion in the novel is used effectively to portray the nature of people in the 1920 's, and the “artificial” life that is lived in this modern age. There are many incidences in which the appearance of characters is far different than what lurks inside them. Several of these incidences are shown in the appearances of Gatsby himself, Daisy Buchanan, and Gatsby’s true love for Daisy. Gatsby goes through a dramatic transformation from his old self to his new self, even changing his name and buying a faux mansion in

Every person thinks of dreams. They give every person the ability and free-reign of an imaginative world and they can focus on what the person wants to make him or herself happy. They are happy, until reality comes in and wipes many of those dreams away; which is the case for the character from Fitzgerald’s novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the uncertainty Gatsby’s dream of receiving the love and affection from Daisy, through the use of allusions and symbolism throughout his novel. However, Fitzgerald’s explanation of Gatsby dream seems to contradict the novel as a whole because there are many moments where Gatsby is willing to throw away anything for the pursuit of an unrealistic dream.

The first element Finney uses to support his main idea is imagery. For example, when he says, "Then he lost it, his shoulders plunging backward, and he flung his arms forward, his hands smashing against the window casing on either side; and--his body moving backward--his fingers clutched the narrow wood stripping of the upper pane" (Finney 12). This is an example of imagery because it is creating an adrenaline pumping picture in my mind by describing how close Tom is to death. This relates to the thesis by showing that you should not risk your life just for your job; more is not more important than life itself. Taking risks doesn’t just mean risking your life, you can risk little things too, for example, your job. You can accept the fact that

One humbling aspect of Gatsby is how he reminisces about Daisy’s presence. He thinks about the first time they met when they sealed the deal in his book. “His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star.

Symbolism, a technique sprinkled through the book, is heavily used with organic material, such as flowers, gardens, settings, etc. gives characters a more natural feel and being more organic themselves. Each scene that is given a natural setting, where it isn’t forced, shows the realist and most raw form of the character.  Gatsby and Daisy are the subjects that can be exampled as two people that act differently in different settings of natural surroundings. The main focus is how they act in the most natural setting possible. Daisy and Gatsby knew each other before, sharing intimate moments, the first moment “...he kisse[s] her.  At his lips’ touched she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” (117). Fitzgerald's vocabulary use in the quote is saturated with liveliness and beauty. The words give a feeling that the book is alive. Gatsby is opening Daisy up as a person. For him she can be a real person, not fake in a world where status matters. For Gatsby she has “blossomed” like a “flower”. Representing her being

In the first book, a Separate Peace, by John Knowles, Gene, the narrator, meets Phineas and they become very close friends. Their life is based in the Devon high school during the WWII period. Gene goes through a lot of confusion after others blame him of pushing Phineas off a tree and breaking his leg, even if he feels very connected to Phineas as a friend. The other book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is narrated through Nick’s eyes who observes the story of his neighbor Gatsby’s difficult life as he is trying to get the person who he loves: Daisy. This book does well in representing the wealthy life and struggles during the 1920s with Gatsby’s big parties and the Buchanans capability of escaping punishment from crimes thanks to

This allows for their love to blossom. In addition, Gatsby and Daisy’s differences are what make them attracted to one another: Gatsby was “a present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulder” (Fitzgerald, 14) depicting how the unrealistic scene he attended through “officers from Camp Taylor” inviting him was rather a fantasy as soldiers/poor do not attend luxury parties. Therefore, their love stems from each others images that they both want to escape, yet ultimately they will never be able to because their love was formed during an unrealistic setting that would never have “normally” happened resulting in their ill fated love. The contrast of what the two characters want and see in the other draw them closer: “Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth a bond mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, and proud of the hot struggles of the poor” (Fitzgerald,

By cleverly integrating imagery into the text of the short story, Dickens portrays the genuine loneliness and eeriness of the isolated post the signal-man occupied. The utilization of imagery is evidently used when the main character describes the walls of the post as “dripping-wet walls of jagged stone.” The author uses dripping-wet walls to describe the post in order to make the degree of eeriness and isolation seem greater because dripping wet walls are usually associated with abandoned structures or dungeons-like structures.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel “The Great Gatsby” acts as a nuanced commentary on the fallacies and truths of love. One of the most interesting concepts of love that was explored within the novel is the idea of love as a shallow, abstract idea that acts as a vessel for other themes—in this case, the concept of love expresses the process of the American Dream. Jay Gatsby’s unending fascination for Daisy—which he refers to as “love”—borders an obsession. This obsession is what drove him to become more than just a poor man through any means possible, which ultimately leads him to being a wealthy person. The intention of this piece is to express Gatsby’s infatuation with Daisy as not just an expression of superficial love, but also as something that holds a deeper meaning—a way of expressing Fitzgerald’s theme of the 1920s American Dream. By writing a ghost chapter, this piece will show through vivid imagery and carefully-selected diction how language and meaning are shaped by culture and context through the introduction of Gatsby and his feelings for Daisy, along with the way his longing for her connects with his drive to gain more riches.

The Reality of Grandeur Wealth carries an immeasurable value. Trilling’s comment, although not directly aimed at The Great Gatsby, is still applicable because of its broader motif. Jay Gatsby first-handedly experienced the psychological effects of reality and illusion in relation to questions of social class as he battled with his identity and his attempts to woo Daisy Buchanan. It was irony, as the discrepancy between expectation and reality slowly but surely began to show itself. Who Gatsby was and who he wanted to be were two different people.

The differing perspective of love are outlaid by Gatsby and Tom as we explore Gatsby’s idea of pure genuine love of Daisy, compared with the superficial love portrayed by Tom. “You’re not going to take care of her anymore” emphasises this aspect as Tom only wants Daisy as an object for him, paralleling the contextual values of the Roaring Twenties of Hedonism and superficiality i.e. the motif of the ‘foul dust’ expressed throughout the book, referring to the carelessness and corruption of the society as promulgated by the ideals of Tom Buchannan. The motif of this ‘foul dust’ is directly combated by Gatsby’s motif of the ‘green light’ which emphasises the hope, optimism and pure concept of the ‘American Dream’ which is corrupted by this foul dust, represented by the superficiality of love expressed from 6Daisy and Tom that ultimately succeeds Gatsby’s dreams and hope. Fitzgerald explicitly criticises the careless and hedonistic values of the roaring twenties, as it corrupts the original pure ‘American Dream’, shown by Gatsby and disintegrates it into the pursuit of

Nick enters the house to find the curtains blowing about the room. On the couch sits Daisy and her friend, Jordan Baker. The movement vanishes when Tom closes the windows, Daisy laughs and says, “‘I’m p-paralyzed with happiness’” (Fitzgerald 8). Fitzgerald emphasizes her feelings of being paralyzed through the stutter of the pronunciation, representing her indecisive attitude and position of confusion. Even from this early point the readers gained insight on the internal battle within her between fantasy and reality. Within Gatsby is her fantasy, a forbidden love filled with “what ifs”, while Tom is her reality, a planned romance with underlying faults. Her mind seems to struggle over the idea of choosing one or the other, favoring the fantasy while in the moment but retreating to the practical option in the long run by finishing the sentence. Swirling around within all of these thoughts and feelings was a false sense of happiness because she lived in a world where consumption and a dream mean everything. These dreams and ideas to have everything were held by many during the 1920s when life became mass produced. Falling into the common lifestyle, Fitzgerald captured the piece of it within himself in Daisy’s characterization, because “Fitzgerald, too, lived between the real and the ideal, fully aware that all is not gold that glitters but aware, too, that still it glitters”