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    Gatsby Essay Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. For example, a dove is usually used to represent peace. In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald uses a lot of symbolism to connect the characters with each other or to other objects. Fitzgerald’s use of symbolism helps advance his thematic interest in his novel of The Great Gatsby. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses various colors, objects

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    represented and shown throughout the story The Great Gatsby. These color each represent small details and even big details. They are shown as important details to the story and how they are portrayed by the reader. Each color is portrayed in a character, idea or even a event that takes place. The color symbolism in The Great Gatsby is represented by the colors green, black, and purple. The color green represents one of the colors in color symbolism of The Great Gatsby because its represents envy and also

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    Erica Diep Mr. Tracy English 3 Honors 5 June 2015 The Great Gatsby: Style Guide Thesis: Fitzgerald uses imagery, symbolism, and point of view to tell his story about Gatsby and the events that took place in Nick's narration. He uses these literary devices to describe the sense of money, wealth and the luxury of their life. In "The Great Gatsby" F. Scott Fitzgerald uses different styles to allow Nick to portray a story about the characters in East and West Egg. People in West Egg are rich but are

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    Color Symbolism in The Great Gatsby There are many different books that are important to literature. The Great Gatsby is one for many reasons. Fitzgerald wrote this book through the eyes of Nick Carraway who was Gatsby’s neighbor. This shows he wanted it to be explained by an outsider looking in on what was going on in the lives of the rich in New York. Fitzgerald always put color symbolism into his books as a way to help explain the characters and their actions. The color symbolism in The Great Gatsby

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    In the novel, The Great Gatsby, there is lots of reflection on symbolism, and especially colored symbolism. In this novel symbolism is a very important factor, it shows the difference between the different characters and scenes in the novel. The color green influences the story a lot. Green shows many thoughts, ideas, attitudes, and choices that Gatsby has throughout the story. White too plays an even more important role in the novel as it is used to represent some of the characters, it also talks

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    The Symbolism of Colors in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby In “The Great Gatsby” F Scott Fitzgerald uses colors in an expressive way to represent different things. Green symbolizes wealth/hope . Yellow symbolizes “ the end” of something. White symbolizes innocence. Fitzgerald’s use of colors allows the reader to experience the novel in a more vivid way. Green is represented as hope throughout “The Great Gatsby” on chapter 1 page 21 green was represented in the quote “ …And distinguished

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    used to figuratively convey a statement to the reader. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald details the affairs of the main characters of the novel through its witness and narrator, Nick Carraway. Nick’s cousin’s name is Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, has an affair with a lower-class woman named Myrtle Wilson. Daisy later has an affair with her old teenage-sweetheart, Jay Gatsby, the novel’s protagonist who also happens to be Nick’s neighbor. The four venture to New York

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    Color Symbolism in The Great Gatsby Commonly noted and referred to, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, displays colors throughout the novel that symbolize emotions and actions shown by characters. Many characters go through experiences that eventually bring out their true inside. In Fitzgerald’s novel, the color green represents hope and greed, the color yellow represents corruptness and deception, and the color white represents social class, purity and goodness, sometimes being false

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    The Great Gatsby is a tragic love story, a mystery. It had many people, objects, and other affairs that represented something indirectly. Daisy, Myrtle and Wolfsheim are an example of symbolism in the Great Gatsby. Daisy and myrtle are very similar. They are similar because Daisy and myrtle are symbolic to flowers. Daisy is like a flower because of her purity and beauty and Myrtle is a flower because she symbolizes immortality and death. “can’t live forever” (Myrtle ch.2). Fitzgerald symbolizes

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    the 1920’s, many people would disguise themselves through the identities of someone else. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main characters can be seen “hiding” behind the symbolism of different colors. Color affects the mood, emphasizes the importance of events in a novel, and can also interact with the personalities of the characters. The concept of color symbolism is prominent in the novel. White, yellow, blue, green, and even the color black affect the atmosphere of scenes

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