Symbols are used to represent something else by association, resemblance, or convention, for example works like Death of a Salesman, Catcher in the Rye, and The Great Gatsby. ... For example Gatsby took the blame for Myrtle's death, instead of turning Daisy in. The themes of the film in The Great Gatsby relate to the themes of the novel a great amount. ...
Through an examination of themes and plot summary F Scott Fitzgerald reveals how his life directly relates to the story. ... In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway moved to West Egg to work as a bonds salesman. ... It becomes clear that the "death car" was Gatsby's. ... Throughout The Great Gatsby, there are a couple of themes that pull this story together. ... Another theme represented in this story is where you originate defining who you are. ...
Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920's, he used a variety of sources to develop the setting, themes and characters. ... His mother's father was a self made Irish immigrant millionaire, and his father was a salesman who married above his social class and squandered the family fortune (Reynolds 2360). ... The same daisy (yellow within/ white without) relates her to the books many "eggs- and implies that she is not a daisy but a rotten egg because she does not contain the seeds of life but of death (Stark 61). ...
