27. Choose a specific literary element (e.g., theme, characterization, structure, point of view, etc.) or literary technique (e.g., symbolism, irony, figurative language, etc.) used by one of the authors F. Scott Fitzgerald. Using specific details from either Passage I (the biography excerpt) or Passage II (the poem),The Great Gatsby in a well-developed paragraph, show how the author uses that element or technique to develop the passage.
Possible Sentence Starter: —F. Scott Fitzgerald uses _________ as a symbol to show….
USE EVIDENCE FROM CHAPTER FOUR OF THE GREAT GATSBY TO FORM YOUR RESPONSE.
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses metaphor as a symbol to show the comparison of one thing to another. In chapter four, on page 76, Fitzgerald writes, "she took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow." This shows how Fitzgerald uses a metaphor to compare the letter that Daisy received, after it got wet, to snow. He also uses the disintegration of the letter as her purity and innocence disintergrating as well.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme of love to describe the feelings between two characters. On page 78 Daisy tells nick that "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay". This displays love within the characters Daisy and Gatsby, because Gatsby brought a house that would be close to Daisy ultimately showing his affection for Daisy. Love between these two characters can be a bit controversial because Daisy is married to Tom. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme of love to describe the feelings between Gatsby and Daisy.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses imagery to get his reader's attention and to get thinking about certain situations in the book. In chapter four, page 70 Mr. Wolfsheim describes the old Metropole to Nick "The old Metropole/ filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal". This sets up a very violent image in one's mind when he/she thinks about the old Metropole. From that statement one can conclude that the old Metropole was a place death visited often and a place with not so much good memories or a very blood tainted place to live.
ReplyDeleteF Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme hope/dream to show symbolism in the book. For example the green light that Gatsby stares at. The green light is at the end of Daisy’s dock across from Gatsby’s house. F. Scott Fitzgerald actually the green light to either symbolize wealth and determination. Both of these.relate to when he first falls in love with Daisy and she will not marry him.This was because he had no money and he was a soldier. Gatsby then strives to earn the amount of money needed so he can buy a large mansion to win Daisy over. While he is doing this, Daisy marries Tom because he does have the money to marry her. This shows how daisy cares about her wellbeing more. Gatsby strives to win Daisy back with the amount of money that he has made. This is why Gatsby stares at the green light for, it shows the image of what he is striving for and what he hopes to obtain.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme mystery to represent Gatsbys life. In chapter 4 page 61, a guest stated, "He's a bootlegger... One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second causin to the devil. " Even though Gatsby throws many large parties and a lot of people attend invited or uninvited, and has a big reputation that many people know off, nobody truly knows his story. Fitzgerald uses the mystery to represent Gatsbys life.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme of love to represent many characters.In chapter 4, Tom gives daisy a pearl necklace worth 3.5 million in today's currency.Gatsby sends a love letter to Daisy, and one day he hopes that Daisy will walk by his house/manor.He does this to show Daisy he has money too.Many fools in this book fall in love without knowing why, the aspect of mystery could be involved as well.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses love as a sign to show the affection between Gatsby and the ones he holds close. In chapter four, when Jordan tells the story of how on the day that Daisy and Tom got married she received a letter. The letter most likely from Gatbsy was then crumbled up into a wet ball. Daisy only allowed the wet ball to be on the soap tray. She was crying because she still had feelings for Gatsby from the years prior. In chapter one, when Nick explains he is neighbors with the infamous man known as Gatsby, Daisy says, "Gatsby? What Gatsby?", in shock to know the the one she had feelings for before Tom came along was right across the river. This is a prime example of how F. Scott Fitzgerald uses love to highlight the affection Gatsby has for the ones he holds close.
ReplyDeleteF . Scott Fitzgerald he uses a lot of symbols. The green light across from Gatsby's house. Green actually signals wealth, so Daisy is showing she's wealthy.Gatsby strives to make money to show nobody is better than him so, he tries to buy a large mansion to wow daisy but daisy is stuck with her husband. Shes not happy but she chooses to stay with him due to the wealth and benefits that come with him. Gatsby is still trying to win Daisy back
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses metaphors to show a certain type of feeling such as sympathy. On page 61, F. Scott Fitzgerald, as a young lady speaking and say's "Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass" due to the fact that the "young ladies" was talking about Gatsby's rumors.
ReplyDeleteF . Scott Fitzgerald he uses cars as symbols I say this because every time a character uses a car, they are trying to escape something in their life that they do not want to face. In the book Tom and Myrtle gets in a car too escape their marriages.
ReplyDeleteFitzgerald uses the theme, escape to show symbolism. For example a character’s car. Every time a character uses a car, they are trying to escape something in their life that they do not want to face. This is Fitzgerald’s way of symbolizing the human desire to escape from their current reality/life. This can be seen in Tom and Myrtle’s love affair. The only time they see each other is when they escape into the city using Tom’s car. This is Tom and Myrtle’s way of escaping their real lives and spouses showing their secrecy and desire to escape from their real lives.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald selects literary techniques such as symbols in the book to illustrate a deeper meaning. One of the many symbols in Chapter 4 is the character, Mr. Wolfsheim. Mr. Wolfsheim, a Jewish man, represents Fitzgerald's anti-semitism; hatred of Jewish people. Wolfsheim is shown to be a suspicious and obnoxious character the minute he is introduced in the book. Fitzgerald also sets Meyer to be a stereotypical Jew as much as possible including giving the characters a large nose which Jews were mocked for. People claimed that the Jewish community had big nose because they wanted to be in everybody's business.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses simile as a symbol to compare two unlike things together. It is shown in chapter 4, page 88. "Don't talk so loud. You're acting like a little boy." This shows how Fitzgerald used simile to show how embarrassed Gatsby was to meet Daisy and Nick trying to cool him down
ReplyDeleteIn The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the literary technique called point of view. In the beginning of chapter four, Nick begins to list off a whole bunch of people that he has seen go into Gatsby's house over the summer. While this may not seem important at a glance, it really is because how would Nick possibly know about all these people and their lives? These people were well known. F. Scott Fitzgerald never allows Nick to say they are directly but they have to be because Nick somehow knows all of them and their lives in great detail without even having step foot in Gatsby's house.
ReplyDeleteIn The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses West Egg and East Egg to symbolize Social Standing. Throughout the Novel these places are mentioned and represent different social classes yet both having money. In East Egg the social standing is represented when the people living there are more elegant and come from money. In West Egg the social standing is represented when the people living there are not as sophisticated as those from East Egg because they do not come from money, the money they have now they have earned it. For Example Tom and Daisy Buchanan are from East Egg and Gatsby Is from West Egg. Fitzgerald uses these two places to Symbolize Social Standing throughout the novel.
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ReplyDeleteF Scott Fitzgerald uses love as a sign to show the correlation between Daisy and Gatsby. In the start of the book, Daisy is struck with information about Gatsby and how where avouts in essence. He is a neighbor to Nick Caraway. She is infatuated with the man known as Gatsby and finds his still being alive as a shock. In chapter 4, Daisy receives a letter most likely from Gatsby and then proceeds to crumple it up into a wet ball. However, she is unaware of who the letter is from but the reader has a pretty good idea of who the letter comes from. Her immense feelings for Gatsby supersede her anger towards Tom and she begins to cry. Ultimately, love is a major symbol in the novel so far as we begin to understand Daisy's affections towards the infamous Gatsby.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism to give us an understanding of the characters actions or the way that the characters carry themselves. At the end of chapter one we are introduced to Gatsby when Nick arrives home from Daisy & Tom's house. Nick was looking at Gatsby when he says "he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as i was from him, i could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily i glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock." The color green has appeared in The Great Gatsby as a sign of life/hope. The green light is what keeps Gatsby going forward hoping that he will one day see his true love again
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses scenery as a symbol to tell about someone's past. Gatsby was seen looking at the stars. He uses a metaphor about stars. Then over the sea you could see a green light. In chapter 4, Gatsby comes and decides to tell the truth because he's tired of the rumors. He said "I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West-all dead now" Gatsby looking at the stars was like seeing heaven. All the dead family members and the green light represents the wealth.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses colors as a way to describe his thinking. In this book The Great Gatsby he either uses the color white or refers to the green light. In Chapter 1 Daisy was explaining her white womanhood before she met Tom Buchanan. When she says her white womanhood, she's talking about her innocence before Tom.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism of character traits as a symbol to show what the specific character will most likely be immersed in. For example, in chapter 4 pg.69 the passage reads " "this is my friend Mr.Wolfsheim." A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated I either nostril" . This quote is showing the stereotypes of Jewish people that involves dealing with money and being good with it. When the reader has this idea of Mr.Wolfsheim in mind, they can infer that his character will be involved with some type of money topic. In addition, later on in the chapter we find out more about this character and then can later tell that he is a powerful person and deals a lot with money. The passage even calls Mr.Wolfsheim a "gambler" on pg.71.
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses characterization to truly give the readers a sense of the person he is talking about. In chapter four where Nick is giving insight on how he views Daisy "Daisy was popular in Chicago as you now.They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild, but she came out with absolutely perfect reputation. Perhaps because she doesn't drink." Daisy's character is the more laid back so her not drinking is a change in her character that Fitzgerald placed upon her because if se drank she could not have that "perfect reputantion".
ReplyDeleteF. Scott Fitzgerald uses colors as a symbol to show what people are truly about . The color white as used in chapter 1 describes daisy's innocent childhood . The white wedding dress , the white curtains , and the white pearls Tom gave her all describe Daisy's innocence . Also the green light flashing at the end of the bay . It symbolises toms love for daisy and that daisy couldnt get her .
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