The Great Gatsby by F. ... Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream using multiple symbols in his book, The Great Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald uses the light as a symbol of the chase for what Gatsby wants: Daisy. ... The eyes and the green light and the characters houses are all symbols that Fitzgerald uses to critique the American Dream in The Great Gatsby. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick was the American Fool. ...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald used the imagery of colours in his book The Great Gatsby. The colors are used very frequently as symbols, and the different shades create atmosphere in different scenes of the book. ... Yellow stands out as a symbol of corruption and decay. ... The most important symbol, however, is Gatsby's car. ... In The Great Gatsby, colors are employed throughout the pages to convey impressionistic, but important, images to the reader. ...

• Word Count: 550
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. ... Fitzgerald uses the " Valley of Ashes" to portray, the corruptiveness of wealth, it leads to a life of materialism and purposeless spending and ends in, the ugliness of the "Valley of Ashes", a symbol of wasted life and wasted land. ... In the Great Gatsby the monochromatic world, known as the "Valley of Ashes," is really a symbol of both a wasted land and exhausted people of an industrial society. ...

• Word Count: 453
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School