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One of the most important symbols that develops within the story is the car, it symbolizes wealth, status, power and the last thing you would think of-- death. It represented the beginning & the end of Gatsby's rich lifestyle and of course Tom's affair. Here are some quotes that we found very symbolic...

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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away." (page 2)

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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away." (page 2)

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By Gatsby being compared to a seismograph, which is directed towards an enigmatic hope for the future, Nick is complimenting him on his vibrant personality. In other words, his "heightened sensitivity" didn't emerge genetically, they were fueled by his hope and determination to fulfill his dreams.

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"I had no sight into Daisy's heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game." (page 6)

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"I had no sight into Daisy's heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game." (page 6)

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Tom peaked a bit too early as he was a star athlete in college and settled with a woman too soon. He wasn't satisfied with a normal life because he missed the freedom, the games, the ladies...which eventually lead him to become unfaithful to Daisy.

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"Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor." (page 8)

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"Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor." (page 8)

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Everything in the room lost its light as Tom shut the windows. This portrays him as an unwanted character, a dark figure.

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" But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg."

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" But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg."

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Nick is describing the scene of the area in which the "eyes" are looking down on the hard working people.

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" The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground. "

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" The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground. "

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are a pair of rundown of bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. They may represent God staring down upon and judging society.

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" He [wilson] was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome "

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" He [wilson] was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome "

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Nick is describing wilson when he first met him with tom when they were entering the valley of the ashes.

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"Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission""

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"Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission""

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Gatsby struggles to keep up with the rich folk because of his "new money" hence the uninvited that make an appearance.

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"She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster..." 

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"She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster..." 

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Fitzgerald is describing Daisy in her younger days before she became who she is now. The color white throughout the book is very significant as it represents a sense of innocence.

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"At nine o'clock one morning late in July, Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three-noted horn." Page 63

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"At nine o'clock one morning late in July, Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three-noted horn." Page 63

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Gatsby's car seems to be an important symbol as it is mentioned repeatedly. This time Nick gives a small detail of Gatsby's wealth saying that he has a three-noted horn representing royalty.

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"His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock, and from this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but graceful, on the edge of a stiff chair." 

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"His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock, and from this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but graceful, on the edge of a stiff chair." 

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The non functioning clock is representative of the time that Gatsby and Daisy cannot get back and the time they lost.

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"He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers." 

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"He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers." 

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This quote relates closely to Gatsby and Daisy's situation as these things seem to be irreversible as once a fruit becomes fruit rinds, you cannot have the fruit again. Once a favor is discarded or unappreciated, the same feeling is not there. Once flowers are crushed they cannot go back to the original state. Gatsby and Daisy relate to this because it is as if reverting back to old times is impossible at this point for them.

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"I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all"

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"I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all"

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Gatsby's parents were an example of failure in his eyes, he strived to not end up like them. He had hoped to have grown up with polo horses.

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"James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career—when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior."

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"James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career—when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior."

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James Gatz represented his "embarrassing" past as a farmer's son so he changed his name to Jay Gatsby and embraced a new "rich" beginning.

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"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited"

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"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited"

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Just Nick being honest. He hadn't been invited till Chapter 3. Goes to show he hasn't succumbed to society, we are given this perspective from a person who was once an outsider to getting inside scoop of the partygoers environment.

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"an unfamiliar butler with a villainous face squinted at me suspiciously from the door"  

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"an unfamiliar butler with a villainous face squinted at me suspiciously from the door"  

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This quote demonstrates imagery because this proves how society is very judgemental if you are you not in the level the society wants you to be, which would be rich and old money.

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White represents Nick’s purity in the superficial world that Daisy & Tom have created.

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"You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one"

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"You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one"

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The green light at Daisy's dock represented Gatsby's dream of finally meeting her again. So when it becomes a reality, the green light becomes a light once again.

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The gardener, the last one of Gatsby's former servants, came to the foot of the steps. "I'm going to drain the pool today, Mr. Gatsby. Leaves'll start falling pretty soon, and then there's always trouble with the pipes."  “Don’t do it to-day.” Gatsby answered. He turned to me apologetically. “You know, old sport, I’ve never used that pool all summer?

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The gardener, the last one of Gatsby's former servants, came to the foot of the steps. "I'm going to drain the pool today, Mr. Gatsby. Leaves'll start falling pretty soon, and then there's always trouble with the pipes."  “Don’t do it to-day.” Gatsby answered. He turned to me apologetically. “You know, old sport, I’ve never used that pool all summer?

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This line closely shows that Gatsby has realized his dreams are diminishing and he has not realized till now. The pool symbolises his dreams and the drainage symbolizes his life fading away and all he built for a dream that is no longer there.

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"For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. "

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"For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. "

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this symbolizes Daisys character and her life in society

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"They're such beautiful shirts...It makes me sad because I've never seen such -- such beautiful shirts before"

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"They're such beautiful shirts...It makes me sad because I've never seen such -- such beautiful shirts before"

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Gatsby's superficial nature is symbolically represented through the expensive shirts that brings Daisy to tears because she also values external appearances.

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"Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound."

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"Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound."

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now that Gatsby has passed away and Daisy moved away the green light is dimmer symbolizing there absence.

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"I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. "

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"I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. "

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this symbolizes the meaning towards the light on how gatsby felt like the light was meaning that he was close to Daisy

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"His bedroom was the simplest room of all-except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold."

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"His bedroom was the simplest room of all-except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold."

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Nick describes Gatsby's room as the simplest of them all because he is the only one who sees his room. This reveals that Gatsby puts on this persona to the world and to real in Daisy but truly he is happy without the luxury.