Symbols

Question 1

Associated with wealth and royalty but symbol of decay

Answer 1

Yellow

Question 2

New money, also shallowness but a bit more virtuous of the two because it’s correlated with hope in dream (where Gatsby lives)

Answer 2

West egg

Question 3

Represents a wasteland a spiritual emptiness of working class struggle for material wealth

Answer 3

Valley of ashes

Question 5

Symbol of absence of innocence and morality, blankness

Answer 5

White

Question 6

Represent the omniscient eyes of God watching over the corrupted spiritual and religious views

Answer 6

Eyes of Dr. They Eckleberg

Question 8

Symbol of illegal wealth, moral decay, moral decay, evil and corruption

Answer 8

Alcohol

Question 9

Old money, morally corrupt (where Tom and daisy live)

Answer 9

East egg

Question 10

Gatsby’s dream of his life with daisy and the American Dream

Answer 10

The green light

Question 11

Sign of Americas new materialism a status symbol of financial success

Answer 11

Automobiles

Question 18

Represent the notion that money can buy the illusion of gaiety and friends but money can’t buy true happiness and love

Answer 18

Gatsbys parties