Erin Pihl
December 13th 2011
Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Gatsby Essay Idea
For my Gatsby essay I plan to mainly focus on the American Dream being corrupted by material things and the colors that Fitzgerald uses to exemplify them. The American Dream says that anyone can work hard to build themselves up, making there own breaks in life. But I will go on to talk about all the ways its compromised in this novel. Things like money, cheating, and greed. Then i would go a step further to analyse the colors that exemplify each of these things.
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Erin,
ReplyDeleteOkay, I like the idea of your explaining how color symbolism works to support the larger meaning of the novel (relative to the death of the American Dream), but you haven't really given me much here to work with (did these few lines take you the entire class to compose?). Ah, well. You might check out some of the comments I have made on related, and more substantive, posts for additional ideas.