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