Fitzgerald’s work The Great Gatsby. Major themes are represented through symbols, such as the glasses of T.J. Eckleburg and even the valley of ashes between West Egg and New York. Even bigger than those two are the colors that tell the stories of the different characters. Throughout the story, Jay Gatsby is commonly associated with the colors yellow, white, and green. By looking into the meanings of these colors, the reader can get to know Jay Gatsby much better. Yellow is a very two sided color
size” (9). The Great Gatsby, written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, presents Fitzgerald’s life through a variety of different characters in this American classic. In this novel the main protagonist, Jay Gatsby, sets out to win the heart of a love long lost. He enlists the help of Nick Carraway, a gentleman who almost became corrupt by the Northeast, to help him win the heart of Daisy. The three main locations in this novel reflect the people that live there and each symbolize a class in American
Fitzgerald, in writing The Great Gatsby, depicts to the readers how the American dream is romantic and beautiful, yet deeply flawed and contradictory, through the usage of rhetorical and literary devices, such as oxymorons and hyperboles.
The Green Light and the Great Gatsby ‘Wild parties, exquisite cocktails, fabulous wealth, raging jealousy and spectacular deaths’ reads the rear cover of the great American masterpiece, the Great Gatsby. With this book F. Scott Fitzgerald offers up critique on several themes such as love, betrayal, society and class, wealth and above all the American dream and the American which are intertwined with each other: ‘The American dream is that public fantasy which constitutes America’s identity as a nation’