The Color White by Trevor and Howard

The Color White: Howard and Trevor
Meaning: The color white resembles purity and innocence
“They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling…”
“Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water...”

Works cited
www.wikipedia.com
http://www.whiteflower.co.uk/

Gatsby's Parties - Carlos and Joe - 5th

The Symbol- Gatsby’s Parties
Gatsby’s Parties did not just hold a symbol on its own, but more of an amalgam of details, all holding symbols within them, which portrayed the society of the 1920’s. The 1920’s society could be described as one that is careless, selfish, and “living for the now”. The guests of the parties did not know who Gatsby was yet attended nonetheless. Some of the party goers go to his parties even without invitation, showing recklessness. As common as they go in and out of his house shows how they come in and out of his life, which reveals the people who don’t hold consistency and caring.

Quote: “Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know—though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.” (Fitzgerald, Ch 3)

“I believe that few people were actually invited to these parties. They just went.”(Fitzgerald)

The Color White - Veronica & Pete

Meaning: Wealthy, a cover up for their filthiness
“Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water…”
“…walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken women in a white evening dress.”

Works Cited

1. www.litfix.co.uk/Fitzgerald.htm
2. www.wikipedia.com

The Valley of Ashed - Liz and Dani

The Valley of Ashes and The Color Gray

First introduced in Chapter II, the valley of ashes between West Egg and New York City consists of a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/themes.html



“About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. This is a Valley of Ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat like ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort” (Fitzgerald 23).

-This quote describes the Valley of Ashes at its best. Also, it connects many metaphorical figures with physical objects such as the valley itself. The simile (“like wheat”) is used give the reader a good visual.


“But above the gray land and spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive… the eyes … from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles” (Fitzgerald 23).

-Here the great yellow eyes are first introduced and the reader’s curiosity is peaked for a deeper understanding of what these eyes mean and represent. The land in the background is described as “gray” which may represent emptiness and death.


Written by:

Liz and Dani

Orchid & Rose - Daniel and Iyad

Orchid & Rose: Daniel and Iyad

Rose





Orchid

Meaning: The Rose is very beautiful from far away but you have to be careful when you get close to it because it has some thorns that can hurt you if you aren’t careful how you handle it.
The orchid is white which is the color of purity, cleanliness, and innocence. But you have to be careful because they are easily damaged or “tainted”.
Quotes: “He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.” (Rose)
“…an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.”(Orchid)

Work Cited:
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorselection/p/white.htm
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorselection/p/red.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rose

Daisy - Alex and Steffanie

Meaning: That Daisy is clean and rich on the outside but rotten on the inside.

"Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor" (142)

"At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete." (117)

T J Eckleburg - Bernice and Celeste

Symbol-The Eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg

Through the eyes of George Wilson, the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg represent God looking down on the people of America with a harsh judgment and overall generalization that it has become a corrupt society. They show the naive nature of Americans when it comes to interpreting meanings in symbols. Each character has a different attitude towards the fading depiction of Dr. Eckleburg’s eyes.

“-and I said ‘God knows what you have been doing, everything you have been doing. You may fool me but you can’t fool God.”

“. . . the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous form the dissolving night. ‘God sees everything.’”


www.imdb.com/title/tt0071577/photogallery

Bernice Soto and Celeste Cardenas

Valley of Ashed - Drea Mathis

Symbol – The VALLEY OF ASHES

Picture -
http://www.cradleofnhs.org.uk/images/dyffryn.jpg



Meaning- The VALLEY OF ASHES means Rich takes from the environment and the poor just so that they can have the luxuries that they want.


Quotes-
“A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take forms of house and chimneys… and ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud.” (23)

The people who live in this gray city are hopeless and poor. The gray surroundings symbolize the poor rode ahead that is existent without any life of color to come. The gray symbolizes loss of hope. When the book describes Wilson with “ashen dust [Wilson] suit and his pale hair…” (26) This shows that there is no hope for George Wilson. Also, Gray can symbolize death. The gray valley of ashes ties in very well with this concept when Myrtle dies in the ugly, hopeless town.

Gatsby's House - Xavy SanGabriel

Gatsby’s House
Jay Gatsby’s house is home to lavish and extravagant parties filled with people who may or may not know Gatsby personally. They may have been introduced to Gatsby once and then stays there for the fun. The house parties also provide opportunities for young (and relatively poor) Englishmen to be able to create connections with rich Americans to be able to achieve the upper class status. Gatsby uses his big house parties to attract the woman of his dreams: Daisy Buchanan. Unfortunately, Daisy is one of the few people who don’t attend Gatsby’s parties. Gatsby also stays at his house and stares at the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock.
Serving these purposes, Gatsby’s house is home to many symbolic purposes for the book The Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s house symbolizes the path to Gatsby’s dream. It may also be interpreted as to how the American Dream has fallen to just seeking money and riches. The fact that Gatsby’s dream (Daisy) came last to his house symbolizes the patience required to attain the American Dream.
Quotes:
“There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights… The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
“I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited”
“I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans.”
Sources:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/themes.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/summary.html

Picture:
http://www.sitecreative.com/gallery/misc/White-mansion.jpg

East Coast vs. West Coast - Robert Flores

VS

The Great Gatsby
East Cost vs. Midwest/ West
At the commencement of the novel the reader is attune to the fact that the novel takes place in New York. New York is located on the Eastern Seaboard, wile many of the character’s in the novel made their starts in the Midwest. There is a great amount of contrast between the attitudes of the Northeasterners and the attitudes of the Midwesterners. The liberal thinking of New York sets the scene for opportunity, that is hoped for in the American Dream. New York also sets the scene for radicalism and change which is different from the traditional values of the Midwest.
“My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations” Shows traditionalism in the Midwest
“The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and were dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.” Shows the radicalism of New York
“That’s my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” Shows the contrast between the two ways of life

“...I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes- a fresh, green breast of the new world.” Shows the opportunities made possible in New York

VS.

Works Cited:

30 Mar. 2007 .

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995.

Oberlin College. 30 Mar. 2007 .

The Color White - Veronica and Pete-8th

Meaning: Wealthy, a cover up for their filthiness
“Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water…”
“…walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken women in a white evening dress.”

Works Cited

1. www.litfix.co.uk/Fitzgerald.htm
2. www.wikipedia.com

The Green Light - Selby and Star-6th

Selby
CrystalStar
Period 6
1) The green light in “The Great Gatsby” symbolizes the envy that James Gatz has. He longs for Daisy’s love.


2) “…he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.” (21)
“Gatsby believed I the green light…Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-”(182)
3)
4) "Start Trails in the Night Sky with Northern Lights Alberta Canada." Fotosearch. 22 Mar. 2007 .

Daisy and Myrtle - Logan and Michael-5th

Daisy & Myrtle

Daisy and Myrtle have a lot in common. They both are linked to Tom Buchanan, so both are used to his treatment of them. Both have a love for the superficial things that money can buy. They love being linked with wealth. Both also cheat on their husbands with other men. Both decide that they are happier with the men they are cheating with. They represent the women of the roaring 20’s, because both have characteristics of the American Dream. They both want wealth, power, and are materialistic. They are also both involved in love affairs and the problems caused by them.

Quotes: “I love you now isn’t that enough? ...I did love him once, but I loved you too”
Daisy said this to Gatsby, which shows how she is torn between Tom and his wealth which she married him for, and Gatsby her love from before and his new found wealth.


“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Daisy is not a fool herself but is the product of a social environment that, to a great extent, does not value intelligence in women. While Myrtle may in fact be this fool, because she married George who she no longer wants to be with. She wants to be with Tom too, because of his social status. Daisy might not value intelligence in women, but she should or she could’ve ended up like Myrtle.

Work Cited: http://www.lawhern.org/Photos/Crepe-Myrtle.jpg
http://www.airbrushnow.com.au/gallery/data/media/7/cartoon-daisy.jpg
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:lAwyh3BzSf8J:www.enpferney.org/StudentSite/Two%2520Women%2520Daisy%2520and%2520Myrtle%2520myessa%2520topic%252016.doc+what+do+daisy+and+myrtle+symbolize&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us

Gatsby's Car - Jisna & Ray-6th

Gatsby’s Car
Gatsby’s car is a symbol of the American dream because he is living his life in luxury.
The car symbols the ending of Gatsby because in the end you no longer see the car as “beauty”, but as a “weapon” that was accidentally used to kill Myrtle. In the Wilson Myrtles husband uses his weapon to kill Gatsby.
Gatsby's yellow car is ultimately the murder weapon used to kill Myrtle. This yellow represents money and crass materialism that corrupts and destroys Gatsby's dream.

“He was balancing himself on the dash board of his car…that is so peculiarly American.”
Here the coincide the car along with America the car is a dream only for those who are rich enough to grasp it. While to the eye Gatsby has grasped that dream, but in actuality Gatsby is still not reached his point of the American dream.
“I’d seen it everyone had seen it”
Here Nick expresses that everyone’s seen the car, and in the end when Myrtle dies Gatsby thinks no one saw them except when they find out what kind of car it was from the black guy its almost positive that someone will identify that car as Gatsby’s
“It was a yellow car”
“…and left the car in my garage.”
Gatsby thinks he’s going to be able to hide away like Tom and Daisy simply, but just hiding the evidence, but by hiding the car to me it’s like hiding the American dream so it hints to the fact that Gatsby American dream where he was so close to achieving will soon come to an end.

Gatsby’s Car
Gatsby’s car is a symbol of the American dream because he is living his life in luxury.
The car symbols the ending of Gatsby because in the end you no longer see the car as “beauty”, but as a “weapon” that was accidentally used to kill Myrtle. In the Wilson Myrtles husband uses his weapon to kill Gatsby.
Gatsby's yellow car is ultimately the murder weapon used to kill Myrtle. This yellow represents money and crass materialism that corrupts and destroys Gatsby's dream.

“He was balancing himself on the dash board of his car…that is so peculiarly American.”
Here the coincide the car along with America the car is a dream only for those who are rich enough to grasp it. While to the eye Gatsby has grasped that dream, but in actuality Gatsby is still not reached his point of the American dream.
“I’d seen it everyone had seen it”
Here Nick expresses that everyone’s seen the car, and in the end when Myrtle dies Gatsby thinks no one saw them except when they find out what kind of car it was from the black guy its almost positive that someone will identify that car as Gatsby’s
“It was a yellow car”
“…and left the car in my garage.”
Gatsby thinks he’s going to be able to hide away like Tom and Daisy simply, but just hiding the evidence, but by hiding the car to me it’s like hiding the American dream so it hints to the fact that Gatsby American dream where he was so close to achieving will soon come to an end.

Emerald Stone - Gaby and Sarah-6th

Gatsby gives Daisy an emerald-stone ring, but Daisy refused to take the ring because she was afraid that Tom would find it. The ring Gatsby gives to Daisy symbolizes the love Gatsby has for Daisy, but the insufficient love Daisy has for Gatsby.

Gatsby dies with the ring in his hand with the hope that Daisy would come back to him. Daisy never planned to go with Gatsby, but the ring symbolizes Gatsby’s patient wait for Daisy to respond to his love.

Like the ring that represents Gatsby’s hope for his dream of being with Daisy, Society clings on to people, objects, and ideas with the hope that their American dream will come alive. Similar to Gatsby, they work so hard to make their goals into reality and make their own destiny.
Gaby and Sarah

Daisy and Myrtle - Desiree & Marcus-6th

Page 142 "Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor"
"At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete." (117)
"Her voice is full of money"
Daisy is the symbol of purity but also corruption by money. She is shown as illuminated and longed by Gatsby. She is represented by a daisy because the outside is white the color of purity she looks so innocent and the inside yellow like the place she was from (east egg which is the more fashionable place of the two where people are rather wealthy) which represents her as a little rich kid…therefore corrupted by money at the core.

“faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can" (29).
Myrtle is represented as an everyday common plant instead of a rich and lovely flower as Daisy is shown as. She is not as attractive as daisy but she is willing to be treated as a dog by the wealthiest man than to be treated with love and care by a man that loves her.


Page 147 "his incorruptible dream" (vs. Gatsby’s corruption)
Page 50 "Behind the idea of the East is a sense of fixed money, of institutional power, of class differences, of the anonymity of the megalopolis. Behind the idea of the West is a sense of mobility, of new opportunity, of a personal and human scale."
The American dream is knowing that you can get by as long as you are a hardworking person and not giving up. Basically you can succeed in life as long as you are willing to work for your money. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the American dream is portrayed as corrupted and that the only way to be respected or the only way you can succeed is if you are extremely wealthy. If you were not a little fancy-pansy rich kid you were not respected and in fact discriminated against.

Works Cited

Daisy picture
http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGallDetail.asp?photoID=937216&catID=510&style=&contestCatID=&rowNumber=25&camID=

myrtle pic
http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/600max/html/starr_980529_1430_rhodomyrtus_tomentosa.htm

quotes
http://www.homework-online.com/tgg/quotes.asp
http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/revision/9.html
http://www.novelguide.com/thegreatgatsby/characterprofiles.html

The Egg - Nathaniel & Jasmine-5th

Symbol-Egg (East Egg, West Egg and the Symbol of the Egg itself)

Meaning: The East and West eggs are where they live, and there is always drama going on. An egg is white on the outside, and yellow on the inside. So, on both sides of the spectrum there is deception everywhere. An egg symbolizes a false show of purity on the outside, but rotten and corrupt on the inside. Also the east egg represents old money that has been passed down from generation to generation. The west egg represents new money that the people who live inside there have earned. There is always constant bickering between the eggs because the west eggers are rowdy and don’t know how to handle themselves amongst the continually wealthy people.
This symbol involves two other symbols within the book; the colors white and yellow.

Yellow is in many facets of the book. Yellow in general means corruptness and things that go bad. –Yellow leaves represent decay and corruptness. –The yellow of Gatsby’s car represents corrupt dishonesty and deception.

White is the color that has the deeper meaning of false purity or goodness. Daisy and Jordan are always seen in white. Also, Gatsby, when he wanted to meet Daisy again for the first time in 5 years, he wore a white suit as if to show that he was good and pure.

Quotes:

“I lived at West Egg, the-well, less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.” P.5

“Across the courtesy bay, the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water.” P.5

Graphic:





Names:

Jasmine
Nathaniel

Sources:

http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/twentiestoday/symbolism.html (Information and Text)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Quotes and Information)

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The Great Gatsby
East Cost vs. Midwest/ West
At the commencement of the novel the reader is attune to the fact that the novel takes place in New York. New York is located on the Eastern Seaboard, wile many of the character’s in the novel made their starts in the Midwest. There is a great amount of contrast between the attitudes of the Northeasterners and the attitudes of the Midwesterners. The liberal thinking of New York sets the scene for opportunity, that is hoped for in the American Dream. New York also sets the scene for radicalism and change which is different from the traditional values of the Midwest.
“My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations” Shows traditionalism in the Midwest
“The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and were dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.” Shows the radicalism of New York
“That’s my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” Shows the contrast between the two ways of life

“...I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes- a fresh, green breast of the new world.” Shows the opportunities made possible in New York

VS.

Works Cited:

30 Mar. 2007 .

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995.

Oberlin College. 30 Mar. 2007 .

Gatsby's Parties - Joey and Jordan

Symbol: Gatsby’s Parties

Meaning: Gatsby’s parties represented the true loneliness in which had felt inside and was also a way to get Daisy, his long lost love to notice him. With every party he had many people attend the shindig, but usually most were just random unknown famous strangers to the Great Gatsby. His parties were a display on how much money he had and a compensation for what he truly desired the warm touch of Daisy.

Citation:

http://honorsenglish.learnerblogs.org/2006/04/07/gatsby’s-parties-class-and-the-american-dream/

Quote:

“Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know—though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.” (Fitzgerald, Ch 3)

http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzscene.jpg

Gatsby's parties - Edd and Javier

Symbol: Gatsby’s Parties

Meaning: Gatsby’s parties are a symbol of how wealthy he is. It also shows how much respect he gets with his parties. Servants and maids come to Gatsby’s house to get prepared for the party the weekend before the weekend of the party. Gatsby’s parties are also invitation only.

Quotes: “I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited....I had been actually invited.” (pg 45). This quote shows the superior or the power that Gatsby had. That his parties were mainly invitation only and only a few people got those invitations.

"Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruitier in New York - every Monday there same oranges and lemons.”(pg 43). The quote shows that Gatsby prepared for his party almost immediately after he had finished another party.







Names: Javier and Edd

Work Cited: http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/99gg/99gg6/chap3.htm

Work Cited



"Egg(Food)." Wikipedia. 22 Mar. 2007 .



"The Great Gatsby." Sparknotes. 22 Mar. 2007 .



"East Egg and West Egg." Podunk. 22 Mar. 2007 .

Gatsby's Shirts - Ginger and Carlos

1) These shirts represent his great wealth with which he impresses Daisy, and Gatsby's extraordinary dedication to his dream.

2) "He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel... shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly with a strained sound Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.

"They're such beautiful shirts,” she sobs. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such beautiful shirts before.”



http://pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/greatgatsby16.asp

http://www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/99gg/99gg6/chap5.htm

Green Light - Roxanne & Abraham

The Great Gatsby

Symbol: The Green Light
Meaning: Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future and the more generalized ideal, associated with Daisy and the American Dream.
Quotes:
-“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms. Nick farther…..And one fine morning-“
-“You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of you dock.”
Graphic:



















Names: Roxanne & Abraham
Work cited: Word art

The Car - Hector and Isabel

The car is symbol of evil










“The “death car” as the news papers called it didn’t stop; it came of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend”.

“Daisy stepped on it, I tried to make her stop, but she couldn’t, so I pulled on the emergency break. Then she fell over into my lap and I drove on”.

Explanation: The quotes show that the car is a symbol of evil because the car is the one that crashed into the girl and killed her.

Isabel & Hector

Color Green - Nick and Karl

The color green represents life, renewal, and growth. The color is also implied at a time of peace (calm) situation.
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorselection/p/green.htm


The two quotes that we found were at the end of the book where Nick is sitting on the green roller and commenting on Gatsby’s great accomplishments. Quote 1: “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (Fitzgerald, 180). Quote 2: “…I became aware of the old island here that flowed once for Dutch sailors eyes- a fresh, green breast of the new world.”(Fitzgerald,180).These quotes represent peace during the time and show the reader a transition.

Daisy's Ring - Will and Jamie

The ring that Gatsby bought for daisy

Meaning of the symbol-
The ring symbolizes Gatsby’s love for Daisy, which see turns down because of Tom.
“ oh you keep it jay, I wouldn’t want Tom to find it”

When Gatsby was waiting for daisy to call by the pool he drops the ring he gives to her, when he was shot. Symbolizing he lost Daisy’s love.
Will & Jamie

The "Breast" - Zelda and Daniel

Daniel and Zelda














The word “Breast”: Comfort and nourishment.

“Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world.” (Fitzgerald, Ch.9)

“…they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap” (Fitzgerald, Ch.7)

Gatsby's House - David & David

David G and David B.

1) The house is representative of Gatsby’s life. Like Gatsby, the house has many signals of rapidly gained wealth. When Gatsby dies, just as there was no one to attend his funeral, the house fell into disrepair and disuse.

2) “. . . a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden” Ch 9
“I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited -- they went there.” Ch 10
3)

Daisy Fay's Voice - David & Cody

David
Cody
English Blk 8

Sybolism: Daisy Fay’s Voice

1) Daisy Fay’s sounds like money.
2) Her voice is "a deathless song" (74,4). Her voice announces danger.
Even her voice “is full of money” (89,8). Her voice is rich and eloquent.



David R
Cody E.

East Egg vs. West Egg - Elisa & Joe

Elisa
Joe




Find the meanings for your symbol

The white part of the egg represents wealth and the yellow represents poverty. The East egg is more refined will the West egg is for people who don’t have any real standing. The water between the two islands represents the separation between Gatsby and Daisy.



2. Find two quotes from the text to match your symbol

The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.


It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York - and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.-- The Great Gatsby



Find a picture for your symbol

Daisy's Voice - Lynn and Edgar

Lynn, Edger
Daisy’s Fay Voice
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.” Pg. 9

“It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, that cymbal’s song of it… High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl…” Pg.120


Daisy’s voice is perceived by others as something filled with promise- a promise of riches and a life in luxury with a beautiful wife. As she was born to a rich family, to marry her would sort of be like marrying the “king’s daughter,” like the case of the Disney movie Aladdin where the person to marry princess Jasmine would become Sultan. As also in the case of the picture, she was held far above her suitors in a figurative “balcony” where they could not reach her.


“Disney Vacation Time” 3/22/07
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The "Breast" - Amanda and Melissa

Amanda , Melissa

The significance of “the breast” in The Great Gatsby it symbolized a new beginning. It compares Gatsby’s dream of Daisy to the explorer’s discovery of America, and the promise of a new continent. It is a chance for Gatsby to win Daisy back with more money, but ultimately money was what caused Gatsby’s downfall.


Ch-9
“I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world.”


http://www.msu.edu/~millettf/gatsby.html

http://www.slashdoc.com/documents/34840

The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg - Francisco & James D.

The Eyes Dr. Eckleburg


"God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me but you can't fool God!...God sees everything" (167).

“The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic- their retinas are one yard high.”(23).

The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg are perceived as the unblinking eyes of God to the natives of New York. If anyone does anything bad they see the eyes staring back at them as if to have the eyes of god looking over them.

Gatsby's Shirts - Jessie and Michaelangelo

Jessie and Michaelangelo

Shirts

1) The meaning is riches and opportunities. At that time most people had one two shirt him and Gatsby has many shirt that he dumps out on a bed. He was also proud and joyous over this representing material objects give joy.

2)
a. “It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.” ~ Daisy Buchanan (Fitzgerald p92.)
b. “He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher--shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue.” (Fitzgerald p92.)

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wikipedia.org. 22 Mar. 2007 .

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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/money/bills/one/

The Valley of Ashes - Steven and Brittany

The Valley of Ashes



The valley of ashes represents the moral situation of the story. It shows the greed that people are consumed with, they wish to find wealth and nothing can stop them. They do not care what is in their way or what will get in their way. The rich only take into account with what they want and they ensure they maintain self-pleasure. The valley can represent the poor, it is a valley which nothing lives and no one takes care of it. It simply represents the people living in poverty.

The Color Green - Vanessa and Toni

Toni and Vanessa

Symbolism in the Great Gatsby
The Color Green


Green in this book means many things
Life
Opportunity
Growth
Envy
Money
Land
Inexperience/naïve
The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock


Quotes:
“I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock.” (Fitzgerald 180)
The light is one of the many ways that green is portrayed throughout this book. The light shows Daisy to Gatsby, who is still in love with her even if only from afar.
“I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes – a fresh, green breast of the new world.” (Fitzgerald 180)
This particular reference to green is for the opportunity available in the new world, also how everything was new and pure when the Dutch settlers first came here.

Green Light at Daisy's Dock - Breshanna & Sabrina

Symbol: The Green Light at the End of Daisy’s Dock

Represents: It represented Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future, and that he would be with Daisy again. It symbolized the American Dream; it was green, the color of money. It also made him feel closer to Daisy when he looked across the shore at the green light.

Quotes:
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes the future before us.” (IX pg.180)
“...Gatsby…when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream less had seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” (IX pg.180)
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Works Cited: http://www.fotosearch.com/PHD577/aa022292/

Orchid & Rose - Andy & Danielle

Symbol: Flowers-Orchid and Rose


Meaning-Roses are beautiful because that is the way people see them, but if you look closer into the rose you see thorns and the negative aspects the rose really has.

Most orchids are white which in the novel, it represents purity, and throughout the novel, the corruption there of.






Quotes-Rose:“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”

Orchid:“…an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.”

























Works Cited

http://www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/99gg/99gg2/flower.htm
http://www.brton.org/gg/ggind3.html
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/gatsby.html

Gatsby's House - Jacob and Daniel H

Gatsby’s house is a key symbol, reflecting Gatsby’s very successful life through his self-made fortune and his fabricated way of life. The house is a direct connection to his love for Daisy. By purchasing the house across the bay from Daisy and hosting outlandish parties to gain recognition, he earned Daisy’s acknowledgment. This was Gatsby’s way of living his own personal American dream. Gatsby’s house was compared to a house of cards by Owl Eyes, stating “that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse” (50). Here Owl Eyes recognizes Gatsby’s illusion to make false images for himself. In the end, Gatsby’s house, as well as his life, would come crumbling down. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, describes this downfall. “That huge incoherent failure of a house.” (188). Nick realizes the magnitude of Gatsby’s parties and how Gatsby’s name was so infamous. Nick thought he was “one of the first guest who had actually been invited.” Most of Gatsby’s “people were not invited” but just showed up.(41)

Gatsby's Cars - Christina and Kyle

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:
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http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/twentiestoday/symbolism.html

Color White - Adam and Darren

Adam
Darren
English – Per. 6
March 22, 2007

The Color White
The color white in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is represented in many examples throughout the book. This symbol has many meanings towards purity and honor. In this book, white shadows the true nature of people and hides the true human character from others. In The Great Gatsby, Nick says about the two girls, “They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling…” (pg. 8). When they meet, Nick insinuates the purity and magnificence of the two girls, and thinks that they’ve been “blown back in after a short flight around the house” (pg. 8). Gatsby also thinks that his relationship with Daisy is pure, saying that when they were younger, Gatsby and Daisy were at a place where “there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight” (p. 110). Fitzgerald wants to stress the purity factor so that Gatsby’s downfall would be more dramatic and Daisy’s betrayal would be more painful on Gatsby himself. His pure intentions were to show Daisy his true love for her, while hers was just to get money. Fitzgerald also uses white to describe snow in the West, where Nick came from, to represent his purity. When he got to the Northeast, he became entangled in the rich and influential, taking his purity away. Carraway says about the West, “When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow…” He shows the purity of the Western countryside, compared to the harsh life of the Northeastern cities.

Works Cited
Schadler, Jay. White Daisy. United States of America.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/White-Daisy-Posters_i983272_.htm
The Use of Colors in The Great Gatsby. 20 September, 2002. Herbert Huber and Co.
http://www.lesekost.de/amlit/HHL252C.htm

The "Breast" - Ally

The Word “breast”: The word breast symbolizes nurturing and the giving of life.” “a fresh green breast of the new world”(chapter 9 p180). The word breast is used to describe that the way the new world once offered a new life to the Dutch. “Michaelis and this man reached her first, but when they had torn open her shirtwaist, still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath”(Chapter 7 p137).The symbol of the word “breast” is that Myrtle is selfish, unfaithful, and is no longer nurturing towards her husband.

The Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Gatsby's Shirts ( Hilda and Amy )

Gatsby’s shirts

The meaning of Gatsby’s shirts is to demonstrate Gatsby’s opulence. It also conveys Gatsby’s dedication to his dream, which is to win back Daisy’s affection.

“I’ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.” (Fitzgerald, 93)

“Shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue.” (Fitzgerald, 93)



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Hilda Fernandez, Amy Phillips

The Color Green: Joshua & Dexter

Symbolism in The Great Gatsby: The Color Green

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us" (p. 171).

"In the sunlight his face was green" (George Wilson, p. 117).

"On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat,.." (p. 112).

The Color Green symbolizes the meaning of life and the gaining of material possessions.

Money Makes The World Go Round. We’re American. The Gain of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.







ULR Sources:
http://www.lesekost.de/amlit/HHL252C.htm
http://www.enotes.com/great-gatsby/39
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Gatsby-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141182636
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar