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Wasteland

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1924 portrays the young and the wealthy enduring city life and superficial quarrels. Throughout Fitzgerald's array of accurate descriptions of the haughty upper class and the depressing realizations of the down-and-out forgotten society, stand his interpretations of how reality was truly defined in the 1920s. There are 5 main characters in this novel starting with the protagonist, Nick Carraway who narrates the story from his perspective. Daisy, Nick's cousin is married to a wealthy man named Tom Buchanan and has a friend named Jordan who is casually dating Nick. Fitzgerald utilizes symbolism through green colored light, the valley of ashes, and Gatsby's yellow car to portray the complete and utter moral destruction of the 1920s.
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays America's obsession with financial aspirations and dreams through the use of green light. Frequently, Gatsby, a fellow West-Egger such as Nick......

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