The Great Gatsby Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town

Love is strong. Love is pure. The Great Gatsby and “anyone lived in a pretty how town” both implement the message that love is for everyone. In The Great Gatsby, is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor, and he tells the story sometime after 1922, when the incidents that fill the book take place. As the story opens, Nick has just moved from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, seeking his fortune as a bond salesman. In “anyone who lived in a pretty how town” is about the loss and lack of identity of people in the modern world. F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the novel The Great Gatsby and E.E. Cummings, writer of the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” convey a similar theme in their works through the use of

tone, imagery, and symbolism. Both selections are about love and carelessness and reveal that people are careless about everything including love.
Tone is the author’s attitude towards the writing, which is similar for both selections. Both writers use tone and diction in revealing the theme in their pieces. In The Great Gatsby, the tone varied. Fitzgerald makes Nick, the narrator, start with being amazed when he knew the great man named Gatsby. “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ,” (Fitzgerald 2), Gatsby was the man to know. From being invited to his house personally to just being his neighbor, Nick was amazed of all he did and had. From being amazed, he became annoyed when Daisy, who is married to Tom, and Gatsby met up for tea. Gatsby had been waiting for Daisy for five years and when she married Tom, he explained it was the worst thing that had ever happened to him. After being annoyed, and ending off the story, Nick became depressed at the point of Gatsby’s death. Gatsby was killed by George Wilson because he thought Gatsby killed his wife. In reality, Daisy was driving the car which killed Myrtle Wilson. Once Gatsby died and no one came to his funeral, Nick went back to being Nick. The novel relates to the message of love through Gatsby’s actions. He moves to West Egg to be closer to Daisy, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be right across the bay,” (Fitzgerald 78). In E.E.Cummings poem, the author told the stories of the people named anyone and noone who feel love and the sad story how noone loved anyone which in reality it was a careless yet sorrowful tone. Cummings shows the tone of carelessness when he puts in the poem that women and men“cared for anyone not at all,” (Cummings 6). Also, he uses the tone of love when he states “someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance,” (Cummings 17-18).
Throughout both selections, supporting tone and theme, there is imagery.

Imagery is when the reader can visualize and see what the author, or narrator, is trying to set. The author or narrator can set the tone, theme, setting, and help develop the plot. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses imagery throughout The Great Gatsby to paint a vivid picture for the reader, especially when it comes to setting and characters. Fitzgerald describes for readers the desolate and depressed nature of the 'Valley of Ashes' while bringing to life the grand parties at Gatsby's. In “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” the imagery is very vague. The imagery in the poem relates to the love of the two characters. In E.E. Cummings poem, the second line states: "(with up so floating many bells down)" (Cummings 2). We can't really tell what the bells are doing at this point or why they are "down," but the association gives us a vague sense that there's something negative or "down" about these bells, even while they're also associated with floating

upward.
Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Symbolism is important in developing the theme in The Great Gatsby. From start to finish of the novel, Fitzgerald uses colors to show and point out the important ideas. The main one was the green light representing hope. Daisy had a green light at the end of her dock, who lived in East Egg. Gatsby, who would look at the light, lived across the water in West Egg. Gatsby’s green light, was Daisy, “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock,” (Fitzgerald 92). Although Daisy was a married Catholic women, she did see Gatsby until his death. Daisy was described with the color white. White purely means innocence, “They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back after a short flight around the house,” (Fitzgerald 8). Another symbol in the novel was Dr. T.J. Eckleburg ,who represented God/truth. He was a blue billboard in the Valley of Ashes, “The eyes... are blue and gigantic.., They look out of no face, but, instead, from pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose” (Fitzgerald 23). At several points in his poem, Cummings mentions the four seasons almost out of nowhere. In line 3, for example, he breaks from his story about "anyone" to simply say, "spring summer autumn winter" (Cummings 3). Cummings wants to remind us that life actually isn't about progress. It's just a circle that keeps going

round and round. Later in the poem, Cummings mentions the seasons again but changes the order of them: "summer autumn winter spring" (Cummings 34). Now it looks like the four seasons have shifted. But it's important to remember that there's no progress here. It's still the same four seasons going in a circle just like human life goes in circles, with birth, life, and death over and over.
Theme conveys tones, imagery, and symbolism through the novel and poem. Fitzgerald wanted other people to realize that material items cannot provide with satisfaction that the love can. Cummings main purpose in writing “anyone lived in a pretty how town” was to show anybody can fall in love no matter who you are. Love is a very meaningful thing. Two random people in this world are made for each other and that is what makes people happy.