GATSBY
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DEDICATION To everyone who helped me comeback (my mom, aunts, ride or die friends), my cat (Piper), Sarah (who will forever be my “green light” in my design career), Marbles (B.S.S.)... and many more! Your patience was worth it!
- Alexa Paige Anderson
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THE GREAT GATSBY
GATSBY symbols & excerpts from the novel by F. Scotts Fitzgerald designed by Alexa Paige Anderson GRDE 238-01: FAUST FA 21’
THE GREAT GATSBY
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The Green Light Situated at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock , barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, it represents Gatsby’s hopes & dreams for the future.
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Possibly.... it had occurred to him that light had now vanished forever. Now it was again a green light on a dock.
His count of enchanted objects had diminished by
one.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes It eluded us then, but that’s no matter tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... and one
So we beat on, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” THE GREAT GATSBY
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The Valley of Ashes Between West Egg & New York City consists of a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. It represents the moral & social decay that results from the uninhibited wealth.
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DESOLATE The valley of ashes is on one side by a small foul river when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, er, and, when the drawbridge is up
&
the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene as long as half an hour.
There is always a halt because this that I first met Tom Buchanan’s mistress. THE GREAT GATSBY
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The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg They may represent God staring down upon & judging American society as a moral wasteland, though the novel never makes this point explicitly.
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The eyes of T. J. Eckleburg are blue & 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 non-existent nose. THE GREAT GATSBY
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New York, New York
The Great Gatsby takes place from New York City to the suburbs known as West and East Egg. West & East Egg the real-life loca tions of the two shores of Long Island.
Nick offers a romanticized, optimistic view of New York City from afar as he and Gatsby drive toward the city over the Queensboro Bridge. Bright, white imagery dominates the scene, emphasizing the city’s promise, mystery, and beauty.
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Over the great bridge, with the sunlight making a constant flicker upon moving cars, the city rising up all built out of money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is...seen for the first time, its first promise of all the
mystery
& beauty
in the world. THE GREAT GATSBY
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The Yellow Rolls Royce Jay Gatsby’s flashy yellow Rolls Royce represents his singular desire to impress Daisy with his wealth, but it ultimately leads to the complete destruction of that dream.
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On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus...
In his blue gardens men & girls came and went like moths among
At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft,
or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his motor-boats
slid the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. THE GREAT GATSBY
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Forbidden Love
Daisy is married to Tom, but she had a relationship with Gatsby five years prior. When they see each other after years apart their affection for one another is rekindled.
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Angry, half in love with her,
& tremendously sorry,
I turned away. THE GREAT GATSBY
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The End of Summer Throughout The Great Gatsby, the season of summer usually symbolizes either a fresh start, love, or even fun, such as when Nick first arrives in West Egg, Daisy and Gatsby are falling in love again & when Gatsby throws his parties.
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And so... with the sunshine the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,
just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the
summer.” THE GREAT GATSBY
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CREDITS
According to literary legend, Fitzgerald
would go on to base the character of Daisy Buchanan in “Gatsby,” Isabelle Borgé in “This Side of Paradise”, whose family made a fortune during the boom in Chicago during the Civil War. In 1915, 16-year-old Ginevra King met Fitzgerald, then a Princeton University student, at a sledding party in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he lived at the time,during a visit to one of her classmates from the elite Westover School in Connecticut.Fitzgerald visited Lake Forest twice during the two years the pair corresponded through love letters. King wrote in her diary she was “madly” in love with Fitzgerald, reported in 2003, when her papers were donated to the Princeton library. But after Fitzgerald’s August 1916 visit to the North Shore, he penned a pessimistic phrase in his ledger:
“Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls.”
And to Sarah for always being my “green light”!
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THE END
Places were closed now & hardly any lights except the moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. The inessential houses began to melt away until I became aware of the old island here that flowered for sailors’ eyes. The trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, once pandered in whispers to the last & greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with his capacity for wonder. I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock...He did not know that it was behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . .
And one fine morning So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. THE GREAT GATSBY
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Fonts used in my book:
1. Mr Eaves San OT: 2009, sans-serif 2, Mr Eaves Mod OT: 2009, sans-serif 2. Mrs Eaves OT: 1996, serif 3. Mostra Nuova: 2009, sans-serif 4. Macho: 2002-2004, sans-serif
Thank you to the unsplash team, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, and Sarah!
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