Symbolism

Question 1

What are the four paragraphs for the symbolism essay?

Answer 1

1. Green Light
2. American Dream
3. Setting
4. Time & how G stopped believing in symbols.

Question 2

Green Light

Answer 2

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us… so we beat on boats against the current”

Question 3

Symbolism of Gatsby - how is the symbol of the American dream

Answer 3

“I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then - his imagination never really accepted [his parents] at all”

~ Gatsby came from humble backgrounds but he worked his way up to the upperclass by becoming a bootlegger.
~ he didnt want to be associated with coming from the lower working classes therefore, he preffered to change his name to Jay Gatsby from James Gatz. 
~ He worked very hard and wrote out his schedule on the back of a Hopalong Cassidy book that he stuck too since he was a very young boy as he knew he was destined for greatness and didn't want to be a farmer like his parents.

Question 4

Symbolism of Setting

Answer 4

“a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville”

“the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water”

“a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow… where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and… of ash grey men”

~ East Egg vs West Egg symbolises the conflict between Tom and Gatsby
~ VOA is a moral dumping ground
~ NYC is where they all loose moral

Question 5

how G is disappointed by D

Answer 5

“He was was running down like an over-wound clock”

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose it.”

~ as he realises that Daisy isn’t worth it and that his life almost seems pointless now.