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Symbolizes fakeness and corruption
Also represents wealth and social ranking
“They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of
enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a
nonexistent nose.” (pg. 27) i. ÷ .




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This quote is referencing the eyes of Dr. T.J.
Eckleburg who will later watch over the corruption of
the characters.

symbolizes the character’s facade of innocence. “‘He says he knows the car that did it…. it was a
: the color of innocence being worn as clothing- something yellow car.’ Some dim impulse moved the policeman to



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look suspiciously at Tom.” (pg. 148)
you can remove at any time and put on at any time.
The yellow color of the car is associated with the
“She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular... she dressed in fakeness and the tragedy around Myrtles death
white, and had a little white roadster” (pg. 79) Represents passion, rage, and gatsby's death.
“From Louisville. Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white--”(pg. 24) “I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment

The color white is usually referred to when talking about childhood - a time when someone securities and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money
is uncorrupted by society and money. from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas
and Morgan and Maecenas knew.” (pg. 8)




Grey
This quote is talking about Nick's new passion for banking to improve
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: : his life- something that Gatsby had cheated his way to achieve
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“The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the
leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water.” (pg. 170)
• symbolizes dullness and a lack of hope and happiness. Nick's encounter of gatsby's death, "a thin red circle "
“Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal Symbolizes money and gatsby's early life.


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curiosity of a wan, charming discontented face.” (pg. 15) “Involuntarily I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing except a single green
light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock.” (pg. 26)
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• This is in reference to Jordan Baker’s life- summarized within her
.
The green dock light represents gatsby's longing for Daisy that began in his early life
eyes. They are dull, not filled with life, and lacking happiness.
- and him not knowing that his relationship with Daisy should be kept in his early life
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“This is a valley of ashes...But above the grey land and the spasms of “As I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he
bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock…. Gatsby believed in the green
eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg.”(pg. 27) light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” (pg. 189)
@ Considering that the valley of ashes symbolizes the poor people who are

This is precisely the closing for the dock's symbolism of the egg's wealth and
gatsby's early life, as Gatsby is dead and his "fake" way in achieving his wealth
unhappy, the land is grey because it lacks hope
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to impress daisy now means nothing
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