![]() ![]() The most significant symbolism applied in the text is color symbolism. Symbolism is the most powerful device of allowing the reader to gain insight into a character’s personality and of revealing hidden ideas, values and profundity. ![]() Therefore, symbolism plays a major role in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald manages to draw the reader’s attention to significant details and symbols in the text in order to make one think about the so-called ‘truths’ in the story. The Great Gatsby is built upon the desperate desires of the protagonist and reveals a glance behind the glittering facade. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, personifies the American Dream as he is a man with a dubious background who managed to accomplish a luxurious style of living and to achieve everything he wanted to have by his own efforts – except of his great love, that is Daisy. Corruption, despair and desperate desire come along with idealism, faith and illusions. Although the superficial life of the rich and powerful is a major theme in The Great Gatsby, it mostly explores underlying complexities and depths and therefore reveals the other side of the American Dream to the reader. ![]() On the surface, Fitzgerald’s story seems to be about success, money and love – thus about the mentioned newly rich. The “Roaring Twenties” were shaped by the post-war generation and especially by the newly rich and wannabe famous, whose life circled around parties, money and affairs. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby was written in a time of social decadence, in which values no longer played an important role among the war-shattered population. ![]()
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