2. MAP TAP 2002-2003The Great Gatsby 1 Recurring Images and Symbols In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby English 11 th grade Julie Taylor Grandview High School

3. MAP TAP 2002- 2003 The Great Gatsby2 MAP Standards and Other Information Language Arts: English 11 Julie Taylor MAP Standards:  Analyze Literary Devices and Techniques  Organization of Materials  Read for Specific Purpose  Identify Repetition in Fiction Stories

4. MAP TAP 2002-2003The Great Gatsby 3 Review What is Symbolism? Symbolism is a literary technique that is used to represent anything that stands for, or represents, something else. For instance, our flag represents the United States. Symbolic usages in Gatsby include colors, sounds, and other sensory images. Making a point to look for these elements will enhance your understanding of the novel and of the themes that Fitzgerald explores in it.

5. ACTIVITY: Draw two lines down the middle of your paper. In column 1, put a heading of Image. In column 2, put a heading of Example. Take 10 minutes and think of all the Images and examples that we have seen in the novel thus far.

6. White : beauty, cleanliness, wealth, innocence, virginity Blue : Heaven, fantasy, lost time, unhappiness, Gold : Wealth, corruption, dishonesty Grey : Industrialization, dreary, bleak, lifeless Green : Hope, rebirth, “go”, youth, longing, choice, serenity Red : Death, abuse, violence, destruction And others… Fitzgerald’s Color Palette

7. Color: Gold Chapter 1  The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold… Chapter 5 His bedroom was the simplest room of all-- except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold. Chapter 6  “And if you want to take down any addresses here’s my little gold pencil...”

8. Discussion Why do you think Fitzgerald chooses to use the color gold? What do you think it symbolizes?

9. - p. 127 …High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl … - p. 127 Why does Gatsby associate these two colors with Daisy?

10. 9 Other Colors Lavender …of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender… Blue... hope sprang into his light blue eyes (Wilson) Pink …a pink and gold billow of foamy clouds above the sea… …a pink glow from Daisy’s room…

11. MAP TAP 2002-2003The Great Gatsby10 Discussion: What do the colors pink, blue, and lavender represent? Why do you think Fitzgerald uses these colors? Why does he choose these colors only for certain characters?

12. 11 Chapter 1 Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face... (Tom) - p.11 Chapter 5 I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her [Daisy’s] well-loved eyes.- p. 96-97 Fitzgerald uses the eyes of characters to represent symbolic truths throughout the story.

13. 12 The Eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Chapter 2  The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but instead from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose. Chapter 8  Standing behind him Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night. “God sees everything,” repeated Wilson.

14. MAP TAP 2002-2003The Great Gatsby13 Sunlight and Shadows For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened-- then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk. - p.18 When he realized what I was talking about, that there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weatherman....- p.94 What does the use of sunlight and shadows add to the story? What symbolic purpose does it serve?

15. MAP TAP 2002-2003The Great Gatsby14 Images of death are present throughout the novel. To what end? A dead man passed us in a hearse heaped with blossoms, followed by two carriages with drawn blinds and by more cheerful carriages for friends. - p.73 It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete. - p. 170 Myrtle’s body was wrapped in a blanket and then in another blanket as though she suffered from a chill in the hot night lay on a work table by the wall.... - p.146

16. MAP TAP 2002-2003The Great Gatsby15 Chapter 2 “All I kept thinking over and over was ‘You can’t live forever, you can’t live forever.’ ” - p. 40 Chapter 5 He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak,at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over wound clock.- p.97 Time is also used as a symbol in the story.

17. MAP TAP 2002-2003The Great Gatsby16 Chapter 6 “I wouldn’t ask too much of her, I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. - p. 116 -117 Time is also used as a symbol in the story.

18. Final Discussion In a graphic organizer, tell what Death, Time, Sunlight/Shadow, and Color show us in the novel?