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Shows Gatsby hamartia

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“He found out what a grotesque thing a rose is.” Shows how beauty isn’t intrinsically beautiful but dependant on Gatsby’s interpretation. Gatsby chooses to see Daisy in the way he does.

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In the previous chapter, Gatsby’s confrontation with Tom took place on the hottest day of the summer and showed both frustration and destruction. On the other hand, the cooler weather in chapter 8 illustrates calming things down. Now that the fire has gone out of Gatsby’s life with Daisy’s decision to remain with Tom, the weather suddenly cools, and autumn creeps into the air and the “leaves [will] start falling pretty soon”. (Fitzgerald, 153) In the same way that he is attached to the hope of making Daisy love him the way she used to, he insists on swimming in the pool as though it were still summer, trying to hold on to memories of the past and reliving those days.

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After Gatsby's death, Nick tried to phone Gasby but was not able to as the wire kept open in a long distance call to Detroit which means it could be that a Daisy did call or perhaps Gatsby was doomed to wait for the rest of his life

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As George approaches Gatsby, he is described as an "ashen, fantastic figure gliding towards him through the amorphous trees" depicts him as a ghost hellbent on killing Gatsby with "ashen" representing where he comes from. "Gliding" also almost shows how he no control over himself.

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Nick tells Gatsby to leave and go to Atlantic city, but he chooses not to. This suggests how his dream is never-ending and how he doesn't belong to the upper class because if he was truly part of the upper class, he would've left just like Nick told him to.

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“But you can’t foold God.” Demonstrates hows Gatsby’s attempt to fool everyone else and himself about re-living the past isn’t actually attainable.

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The eyes of God looks over the valley of ashes but does nothing to help or change their struggling. Gatsbys lies and deceit will always be found out in the end as it fails to fool God. The eyes look down on a world devoid of meaning and value where dreams are exposed as illusions and the wealthy continue to get the love they don't deserve, that George and Gatsby desire.

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The leaves near the pool symbolize the downfall of Gatsby’s live.  When the gardener tells Gatsby that the “leaves will start falling pretty soon(153)” it reminds us  of fall, a time of decay.  At the end of the chapter, after Gatsby is shot, “the touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it [ the rubber mattress with Gatsby’s body on it] slowly, tracing, like the leg of transit, a thin red circle in the water. ” which represent the end of Gatsby's live.

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“The night had made a sharp difference in the weather and there was an autumn flavour in the air”.

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“She came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light.” foreshadows Gatsby’s death.

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Darkest hour before dawn when Gatsby clutches 'some last hope' - when Gatsby dies, no green light or artificial light as it is the realisation of the ending to the American Dream as it will never be reached. Gatsby makes Daisy the symbol of everything he values so when she doesn't phone him, the green light is still there to represent the hope is always there but only shines in East Egg as their lives remain untouched and self indulgent. The cigarettes are the only thing that illuminates their faces.

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Gatsby's death described in hyperbolic manner suggests it is the death of a dream and someone of great importance.