Christina
Kyle
Symbol- Gatsby’s Cars
Meaning- Gatsby's yellow car is used as a symbol of the crass materialism of the 1920s. Factory-made cars were normally black, so Gatsby's specially-made car displays his wealth and delight in material possessions.
Examples
"It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a hundred suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green conservatory we started to town." (68)
“He says he knows the car that did…It was a yellow car.” (148)
Sites:
http://images.google.ms/imgres?imgurl=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000524EY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.monroe.k12.mi.us/mhs//classrooms/am_studies/gatsby/labadie/pictures.htm&h=475&w=261&sz=32&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=xT8NGtoUgDeRBM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=71&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGatsby%2527s%2Bcar%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DX
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/twentiestoday/symbolism.html
Kyle
Symbol- Gatsby’s Cars
Meaning- Gatsby's yellow car is used as a symbol of the crass materialism of the 1920s. Factory-made cars were normally black, so Gatsby's specially-made car displays his wealth and delight in material possessions.
Examples
"It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a hundred suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green conservatory we started to town." (68)
“He says he knows the car that did…It was a yellow car.” (148)
Sites:
http://images.google.ms/imgres?imgurl=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000524EY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.monroe.k12.mi.us/mhs//classrooms/am_studies/gatsby/labadie/pictures.htm&h=475&w=261&sz=32&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=xT8NGtoUgDeRBM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=71&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGatsby%2527s%2Bcar%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DX
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/twentiestoday/symbolism.html
3 comments:
I think you should write more descriptive reasons as to what the color green means but you have good quotes.
I agree with your answer to the question. The 1920's was a revolutionary age, where people were mostly materialistic, such as Gatsby in this case.
~Michaelangelo
6th Blk.
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