the great gatsby

The Use of Symbolism in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is about a man named Gatsby and his struggle to attain the American Dream in 1920’s Long Island. He fights to get his dream woman and to do so, he must first become rich. Unfortunately, he doesn’t really go about it the right way; he takes part in some illegal activities with some quite sinister characters, such as …

…things as well as Daisy, whose house is just behind the light. The best example of symbolism in this book is the image of Gatsby at the end of chapter one, because it contains many symbols in one image, which illustrates my final point. There are many examples of symbolism used in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bibliography Work Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995, 1925