The Great Gatsby. F.Scott Fitzgerald 1925
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- The Great Gatsby. F.Scott Fitzgerald 1925
- Themes
- Restlessness
- Obsession
- Passion/Love
- Jealousy
- Murder and revenge
- All theat glitters...
- Class
- Motifs
- The WEATHER reflects the action in the novel. e.g Rain storm during the beginning of Gatsby and Daisy's affair
- Characters
- Tom
- Nick Carraway
- Daisy
- Jay Gatsby
- Myrtle
- Jorden
- Quotations
- "a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock."
- "It takes two to make an accident."
- “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
- “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
- Symbols
- The GREEN LIGHT that Gatsby can see represents his desire for Daisy and his jealousy that he cannot have her.
- Also helps highlight the physical separation of the couple over the two eggs
- The Valley of Ashes represents the desolation of the 20s and is the scene of the murder of Myrtle.
- The EYES on the billboard that 'witness' the murder of Myrtle are the only suggestion of the divine in the novel. Possibly casting a judgement over the excesses of the decade
- The GREEN LIGHT that Gatsby can see represents his desire for Daisy and his jealousy that he cannot have her.
- Relationships
- Gatsby and Daisy
- Tom and Daisy
- Tom and Myrtle
- Nick and Jordan
- Themes
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