The Great Gatsby Symbols Quotes

Real Books (pg38)

• A lot of Gatsby is a façade built up to please Daisy
• Unopened and unread could be compared to Gatsby
• "Absolutely real" "Have pages"

Valley of Ashes (pg21)

• "where ashes grow like wheat."
• "grotesque gardens"
• "ash-grey men swarm up"
• grey, lifeless image links to Wilson's "ashen" face.

Green Light (pg 20 and 142)

• "stretched out his arms toward the dark water." Gatsby "vanished" (pg20)
• "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future." (pg142)
• unobtainable dreams

Daisy's Name

• white= innocence
• represent even the purest are corrupt but does stay with tom so not completely

Shirts (pg74)

• '"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed' --> materialism (comp. cars)

East egg vs. west egg (pg7)

• east egg- "white palaces of the fashionable east"
• west egg- "the less fashionable of the two."

Eyes of T.J.Eckleberg (pg127)

• "You can't fool God!" --> "that's an advertisement" (michaelis)
• The eyes of God are ever present, even though most characters don't believe