1. Gatsby’s uncut books / Nick’s unread books Many books in Gatsby’s house were unread. Because most of them was just for his show. So, Nick was surprised when he found that those books are real. He thought those books might just a model. On the contrary to Gatsby, Nick has much less books than Gatsby. However, he actually read books. At the end of this book, Nick seems little sad that he couldn’t read more books in Gatsby’s house. 2. Wolfsheim’s cufflinks The Wolfsheim’s cufflinks tells us that he can’t be part of society easily. Those cufflinks which made of real teeth were not acceptable easily to people in the society by that time. The use of human teeth tends to emphasize the mixture of sophistication and barbarism which represents the character of Wolfsheim. 3. Gatsby’s car / Gatsby’s clothes Gatsby’s car and Gatsby’s clothes simply represent him and his lifestyle. His white flannel, silver shirt, and gold tie represent his wealth. It is always hard to keep flannel white. To keep it clean, it requires the number of laundry and it tells his wealth. The silver shirt and gold tie represent his wealth as well. Not many people can get silver shirt and gold tie by that time. His car is depicted as big yellow car. It is unusual to have a big car during the time period in this book. The car is also depicted shiny car which tells us his wealth to clean up periodically. 4. Tom Buchanan pushing people around / Tom Buchanan quoting things “he’s read“ Through entire of this book, Tom Buchanan is described as one who is arrogant to others. Both of those two quote are represent Tom’s personality. Tom Buchanan is one who likes to underestimate others and mocked them. 5. The faded timetable (showing the names of Gats... ... middle of paper ... ... the word ‘white’ used many times to depict Daisy such as her car, room, and clothes. Also, many adjectives used to describe her were white. This ‘white’ supposedly refers her innocence. The irony is that she is depicted as a selfish and careless woman through the relationship between two men and her. This could be either that the author wants to emphasize of her guilty or that the author wants us to tell the possibility of changing of personality. 17. Green (color) Generally, people thinks that ‘green’ represents the plants or earth. In this book, ‘green’ represents an ideal world that Nick wants to live. Nick is one who traveled around to have better life. For example, he moves Midwest to West where he met Gatsby. At the end, he is tired with it, and decided to go back to Midwest. ‘Green’ also represents spring which refers the new beginning or hope.
3. Nick describes Tom Buchanan's as arrogant and aggressive. Not only in his appearance does represent this (aggressively leaning, beady eyes, riding clothes), but his demeanor does as well. His voice is described as pretentious and he is considered to be unlikable “ there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.”
The opening lines of the chosen passage, "Tom was evidently..." immediately states Tom Buchanan's key characteristics- dominance and oppressiveness, "His presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness." People are intimidated by his hulking power. Tom oversees the crowd as he is standing raised on the steps, which creates a vivid image similar to that of a powerful dictator on a platform surveying his country, people, soldiers, worshippers, slaves. He later leaves his wife at dinner to accompany a funny gentleman, but, as Daisy knows he is really accompanying a "common but pretty" girl. Here we can witness Tom's sheer nerve, audacity and idea of self importance, as he blatantly leaves his wife to join another woman. The book makes reference to "Tom's arrogant eyes" on several occasions throughout the book (p.12, p.101). As is commonly believed and suggested throughout the book the eyes are the door to the soul, so the book is clearly implying that Tom is an arrogant and oppressing person, even when stripped down to his bare, selfish soul.
White is a colour which appears many times throughout the novel. At first, it is used to describe Daisy. The first thing Nick mentions when he sees Daisy in East Egg is that she is wearing a white dress. This colour is related to Daisy, it is "her" colour. Daisy´s clothes are always white, her car is white, she even speaks about her "white childhood". This colour represents her purity, her innocence, her unperturbed self.
When Gatsby and Nick go out on the town Gatsby took his yellow Rolls Royce, which is a magnificent car. Gatsby wanted to impress Nick and everyone else in town with his awesome car. Once again this shows how Gatsby uses objects to get attention and not his personality.
Gatsby’s car’s interior reflects Gatsby’s wealth because green is the color of money. The green interior of Gatsby’s car describes his “zealous desire for wealth” to impress Daisy(Pagelkopf 1). Gatsby thinks that Daisy left him for Tom because Tom was rich, so Gatsby believes that to win her back, he must show her that he is rich. Gatsby does this by purchasing car interior the color of money. The color green symbolized Gatsby’s wish for
Gatsby's bright yellow car could be spotted from a mile away showing is great wealth. Nick states in the beginning of the book that “On weekends his rolls- royce became an omnibus bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug meet all trains” (Fitzgerald 39). Cars in The Great Gatsby are status symbols for various characters, but also function as symbols of American society in general. car crashes symbolize ominous signs of socio-economic and moral collapse. The extravagance of Gatsby's yellow car represents his enormous wealth. However, it suggests not the muted elegance of "old money," but instead the lavish, gaudy excess of "new money." Gatsby's car symbolizes his place in society; he has money, but he will never be accepted in Daisy's world of old family names and inherited wealth. The color yellow also is sought out in other things in the story but gatsby's yellow car is truly significance of
“Possessions in the Great Gatsby” by Scott Donaldson is an article about how both physical and metaphorical possessions help to advance the symbolism and plot of The Great Gatsby. not only do they go into detail about The great Gatsby, they also show how this is done in other novels by fitzgerald and goes on to relate this symbolism back to The great Gatsby. In terms of physical possessions this article talks about how the way that the different characters choices in clothing reveal certain characteristics about them. For example, the way that Gatsby dresses shows that he is newly rich and new to the elevated social class; in turn, this leads to other aspects about him like his car and the lavish parties he throws. Likewise, The same can be
The word visually stunning could be used to describe the 2013 Baz Luhrman directed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless novel The Great Gatsby. Speaking of the director, I enjoyed his portrayal of the lavish lifestyle and carefree party like attitude in such a beautiful visual experience. The way in which the party scenes were filmed in the movie made perfect sense compared to the source material and were something I have never seen done by any other directors in a live action film. Another positive for me about this film was the soundtrack. When I first started watching the film I expected to hear old time music prevalent in the 20s. I however was pleasantly surprised when I learned the soundtrack was compiled by Jay-Z and featured many tracks I enjoyed featuring him either alone or accompanied by another musical guest. While Jay-Z is not exactly an accurate representation of the music of the 20s, the soundtrack adds a modern flavour over the previously mentioned beautiful backgrounds and architecture. The story however is where the movie at times falls flat. When stripped down to basics it is nothing more than a generic love story with a few twists added in for extra kick. The characters in the same vain can be very bland and not make you care much for them due to their backstories not being deeply explored. The only character that I found to be interesting was Jay Gatsby because of the mystical aura that surrounds his character at the beginning of the movie that leads you to want to uncover more of this ever mysterious man. All in all the visuals clearly outpace
In chapter five, Gatsby’s need to impress Daisy makes him seem rather gaucherie. He is looking for old money approval with his actions. He does this on page 92, with the incident of the shirts. Gatsby is showing all his belongings and expensive things to Daisy, seeking for approval. This makes him seem as if he is gloating and boasting about his belongings and large mass of money. This behavior is used for the approval of old money families. When acknowledging this behavior, they see Gatsby and his extravagant things as just
Gatsby’s car in the novel was described as “a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns”(Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby). Gatsby loved to show off and prove his high class, luxurious lifestyle to the residents of New York. He was known for two things and two things only: His parties and his car. He was often spotted throughout New York in his massive, bright yellow, money machine of a car. He had no reason for owning the car except to flaunt his money. Tom Buchanan’s car, on the other hand is an “easy going blue coupe” that is nothing more than a nice, fun car to drive around and get to wherever Tom needed -or wanted- to
People say money makes our world go round. This famous saying applies to Fitzgerald's piece of literature in many aspects. It seems that there were many colors that represented this desire and need for the characters. When Gatsby shows up at Nick Carraway's house to reunite with Daisy, he comes in wearing "white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold tie." (Fitzgerald 89). The colors gold and silver both represent money. Gatsby intentially wears colors that show he has gained and earned enough money to impress Daisy. As Daisy and Gatsby get closer, he takes her upstairs to his closet where there he shows her his collection of real English shirts. Daisy is floored but such a sight that "It makes me sad because I've never seen such-beautiful shirts " (Fitzgerald 98). When Daisy cried at the sight of the shirts, it symbolized her superficial- ness, as well as her materialistic life. Gatsby's shirts were real and authentic and Daisy was amazed and speechless at the thought of how much they must be worth. This need of Gatsby's to impress became a "sickness that drives young men to think that riches can obliterate the past and capture the hearts of the girls of their dreams" (Dictionary of Literary Biography 7). Throughout the entire novel Daisy is continuously seeking money and wealth.
The color white appeared many times throughout the book. It is used in the first chapter by Nick when he sees Daisy and Jordan in East Egg. “They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.” (Pg. 8) In this passage, white is used to describe Daisy’s and Jordan’s innocence and purity. However, in page 24 the real characteristics of Daisy are revealed, “Our white girlhood was passed together there our beautiful white”, this tells us that when Daisy was younger she was innocent, but now she has changed.
The green light signifies Gatsby’s hopes and dreams. Nick thinks back to when Gatsby observes the green light across the bay from West Egg and says, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (180). The “orgastic future” represents the American dream in which everyone has the equal opportunity to live in prosperity and happiness through hard work and success. Gatsby’s dream is full of potential, but the memories in his past end up against him and his potential diminishes as his life
When he is older he dreams of having Daisy, and for a time, he achieved this dream as well. He reaches out for the green light at Daisy's dock, symbolizing the embracing of his dream. Once the distance between him and this dream is removed, he has exactly what he thinks he wants. However, it is this belief in the dream that led to his eventual downfall. Nick reflects on Gatsby's aspirations saying, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic.
At the onset of this book, the reader is introduced to the narrator, Nick Carraway, who relates the past happenings that construct the story of Jay Gatsby and Nick during the summer of 1922. After fighting in World War I, or the Great War as Nick called it, Nick left his prominent family in the West of America for the North where he intended to learn the bond business. Nick was originally supposed to share a house in West Egg near New York City with an associate of his, but the man backed out and so Nick lived with only a Finnish cook. Right next door, Gatsby lived in a glorious mansion with expansive gardens and a marble swimming pool, among other luxuries. Yet Nick did not even hear about Gatsby until he went to visit his distant family at East Egg next to West Egg.