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Relationship Between 4 Locations
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West Egg can be seen as representing vulgarity and formlessness,
as opposed to the formality and style of East Egg
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All 3 are the product of the fabulous wealth tat modern society
creates
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It represents the moral
and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth,
as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own
pleasure
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Patterns of Imagery

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Death and Ghosts
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Gatsby’s death is hinted out throughout the story
Told in the past tense
Subtle grim notes, eg
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Guests are shadowed, with no substances, like ghosts
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Imagery of Nature

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Flowers
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Daisy
o Distinct white and gold colouring
o Repetitively associated with flowers through their colour and
perfume
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Eckleburg à blind eyes
o The eyes of Doctor T
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Eckleburg are a pair of fading,
bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over
the valley of ashes
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Instead,
throughout the novel, Fitzgerald suggests that symbols only
have meaning because characters instill them with meaning
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This lack of concrete significance contributes to the unsettling
nature of the image
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Nick explores these ideas in Chapter 8,
when he imagines Gatsby’s final thoughts as a depressed
consideration of the emptiness of symbols and dreams

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