Jun 05 2009
The Great Gatsby 6
| American Dream | “So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man’s, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.” (116-117)
Gatsby’s dream is achieved here – he has Daisy. Hoewever one word that Fitzgerald uses is interesting, incarnation. It shows Fitzgerald views that obtaining the final package of the American ideal leads to imprionment; something that can’t be reversed or if it is, leaves lasting scars.
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| Character Development | “‘Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!’” (116)
Fitzgerald sums up just how disillusioned Gatsby is in this chapter. At first he seems a little strange, but not totally off his rocker, and seems to have some sense of reality. Alas, he does not, and the readers discover that Gatsby is so consumed with having what he wants and desires, he has lost sight of reality. |
| Color | Grey is a color that Fitzgerald uses to illustrate what has happened to Gatsby’s life, or at least what the turning point of it was. The portrait of the man, Dan Cody, that ultimately shaped Gatsby into the shady man he was, is done in grey, and that it was Nick first recalls about him. He associates Cody with grey, which shows the readers that his influence shaped Gatsby into what he is now. (106) |
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