Symbols In F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

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AJ Meldick
AP English 12
Mary Sites
23 January 2018
Great Symbols for The Great Gatsby Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are many prominent symbols that pass, seen or unseen, to a reader. The very noticeable symbol is the billboard that contains The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which are compared by one character with “The eyes of God”. A lesser known, but still prominent, symbol is the color green, like the light off of Daisy’s dock across the bay. One of the least thought of symbols though is the place known as “The Valley of Ash”. These symbols are very important to Fitzgerald’s book and reflect of the time of the 1920’s. The first and most obvious symbol are “The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg”. Located within

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