It is said that the color green symbolizes hope. In the story, Daisy and Gatsby met for a short time before Gatsby made the decision to go off to war. Gatsby returned home and he knew that Daisy had married Tom, but he hoped to find a way to get back with her, so he moved to the East and purchased a house across the lake from where Daisy currently lived, watching from across the bay. The color green is shows Gatsby's hope, his hope to win daisy back, represents his hope of chasing wealth. The green light on the pier was motivation for Gatsby to work towards those two hopes, to keep on trying to win Daisy again and to chase “the American dream”.
The following paragraph is a prime example of Faulkner’s ability to show this sense of time, progression and decay through his descriptions: “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores (Faulkner).” Death in “A Rose for Emily” is
The Point of view of novel is 1st person, Nick narrates. The first symbol is Valley of Ashes. Nick says, “This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”. The Valley of Ashes is located between West Egg and New York City. It is similar to something dark and lifeless.
The Road By Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy’s subject in his new novel is as big as it gets: the end of the civilized world, the dying of life on the planet and the spectacle of it all. He has written a visually stunning picture of how it looks at the end to two pilgrims on the road to nowhere. Color in the world — except for fire and blood — exists mainly in memory or dream. Fire and firestorms have consumed forests and cities, and from the fall of ashes and soot everything is gray, the river water black. Hydrangeas and wild orchids stand in the forest, sculptured by fire into “ashen effigies” of themselves, waiting for the wind to blow them over into dust.
The Dust Bowl According to West (2011), the word Dust Bowl is generally understood as an area whose vegetation is lost and soil is eroded. He noted that Dust Bowl is majorly caused by drought or unsuitable farming practice. Hook (2009) on the other hand noted that the word matters much to the Americans than to any other group of the world. He noted that the Americans understand the concept Dust Bowl to mean the parts of the United States (i.e. Oklahoma, Kansas, the Northern Texas, and the New Mexico) which experienced severe soil erosion caused by the effect of windstorms in the 1930s.
Fitzgerald looks at the American Dream realistically and sees it can be wonderful yet depressing at the same time. In The Great Gatsby, Nick explains how the American Dream has changed from discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness to a focus on social activities and wealth. Fitzgerald saw the American Dream as reaching the peak of the social ladder, and he does a great job portraying the different aspects on life during this time period, making his works copy society in the modernizing era. (“The Influence of F. Scott Fitzgerald on American Literature”). Fitzgerald began his last novel The Last Tycoon, but he was in terrible health.
C. From Shanghai to Italy (Two Sailors) and on to France and Europe - Lasting hundreds of Years D. 1543 - Panic Selling of 243 Deeds to Iron Ore and Coal Fields in Alsace-Lorraine II. The Arms of Krupp A. Bismarck and 1848 - The Turning Point that Did Not Turn - The Communist Manifesto B. Kaiser Wilhelm and World War I 1. The Dehumanization of Adolph Hitler - Anti-Semitism and Anti-Communism 2. Reinhard Gehlen and the German WehrKreis C. Hitler and World War II 1. Six major mistakes Hitler made that cost him the war
The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the story of a man named Jay Gatsby whose dream is to be with Daisy Buchanan. Early in the novel, the reader's first glimpse of Jay Gatsby is him reaching out for a green light on Daisy's dock. Across the bay, Daisy strives for perfections in her life. The only way Gatsby can win Daisy's love and part of her life is to gain wealth. Sadly, Daisy nor Gatsby achieve their desires.
The language used to describe the setting clearly connotes the awfulness of the setting and perhaps therefore foreshadows the tragic events, which happen in the setting itself. The first descriptive simile ‘a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens;’ sums up the grimness of the place and helps the reader imagine the scale of ashes and dirt which the underclass of the 1920’s have to live in. These people are described further as ‘ash-grey men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.’ This description of the men crumbling suggests that they are adding to the mounds of ashes that lie in the Valley. This is true as the Ashes have been born out of the industrialization of man and are a result of the New Great City developing. The city has dumped all its un wanted waste into the Valley including its un needed underclass.
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the characters to demonstrate the corruption and degradation of the American Dream. He even uses the characters, namely Tom and Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, to demonstrate the demise of those who are brave enough to attempt to attain its illusionary goals. There are different types of wealth represented in this novel. The Buchanans are wealthy people. Jay Gatsby is also wealthy but would rather simply be affluent.