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)
Friday, March 30, 2007
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)
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.
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
http://images.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://www.disney-vacation-time.com/img/jasmine/jasmine-4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.disney-vacation-time.com/princess-jasmine/&h=490&w=356&sz=36&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=bMIHGj5-wYaXIM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=94&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddisney%2Bjasmine%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive
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
http://images.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://www.disney-vacation-time.com/img/jasmine/jasmine-4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.disney-vacation-time.com/princess-jasmine/&h=490&w=356&sz=36&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=bMIHGj5-wYaXIM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=94&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddisney%2Bjasmine%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive
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.
"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.)
3)
wikipedia.org. 22 Mar. 2007.
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.)
3)
wikipedia.org. 22 Mar. 2007
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.
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)
Graphic:
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:
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
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.
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
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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Alysia Villegas
The Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sparknote.com
Alysia Villegas
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)
http://www.internationalmale.com/
Hilda Fernandez, Amy Phillips
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)
http://www.internationalmale.com/
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
"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
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