What Does The Nightingale Mean In The Great Gatsby

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While automobiles may have offered convenience, the dangers associated with them essentially allow man to play God. You are able to end the life of an individual with one wrong move.
The moon is a symbol used it F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, and it ties back into the abstraction of the role of God.
“The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in he trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life. The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone” (Fitzgerald 33).
The moon is used to demonstrate to the reader that there is something above casting light onto the world as people commit sins in …show more content…

It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. Nightly she sings on bond pomegranate tree. Believe me love, it was the nightingale.’ [Romeo] ‘It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale. I must be gone and live, or stay and die.’” (William Shakespeare, Act 3 Scene 5).
The nightingale symbolizes this connection present between passionate love and the sorrow of death. Love makes people act in ways that puts them at risk of committing extreme acts. Juliet loved Romeo so much that she was willing to fake her own death to be with him. Romeo couldn’t bear to be without his love, and thus kills himself.
The Great Gatsby is similar to Romeo and Juliet, as the love between Gatsby and Daisy results in the death of Myrtle and Jay Gatsby. Throughout these two literary classics, the symbol of the nightingale is present. Fitzgerald makes mention of the bird early on which foreshadows what’s to come when he wrote:
“She [Daisy] sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and hen at me and continued, ‘I looked outdoors for a minute and it’s very romantic outdoors. There’s a bird on the lawn that I think must be a nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line. He’s singing away—’ her voice sang ‘—It’s romantic, isn’t it, Tom?’” (Fitzgerald

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