Rosa Rodriguez
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English
23rd April 2018
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Essay
Did you know that almost everything in the entire world is a symbol for something? Symbols
are everywhere you look, just like they are everywhere in the book called The Great Gatsby,
written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of the symbols in the book The Great Gatsby are the green
light, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg (pg.23), and the color white.
First of all, the green light Symbolizes the past. It is the light at the end of Daisy's dock, that
Gatsby is always reaching for. You can still reach for it, but you will never reach it. You need to
move on and push past what has happened. You need to leave the past in the past where it
belongs. ¨And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder
when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock¨ (Fitzgerald pg.182).
Secondly, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg symbolizes god. They are eyes on a billboard. They
watch everything that happens around them but they do nothing about it. The eyes are located
in the valley of ashes. ¨The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic---their retinas are
one yard high¨ (Fitzgerald pg.23).
Finally, the color white symbolizes clean, innocent, and upper class. It is reference to Daisy
and Jordan's white dresses that they are wearing when Nick first meets Jordan at Daisy's
house when he goes to visit. ¨They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and
fluttering as if they they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house¨
(Fitzgerald pg.8).
Works Cited
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925
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