Gatsby topic

For my paper on the Great Gatsby I'm going to write about how the American dream is dead, because of how it has been corrupted by class and money. There is so much symbolism supporting this, such as colors, potential being used up, Advertisements and facades.

With the colors i will talk about Daisy and how she is the embodiment of wealth and class. Daises are a flower that have white pedals with a yellow, or gold, center. It shows how class and social status always have money at the heart of them. This is huge because it shows how everyone wants social status but to get there they must become rich first. Gatsby shows us this by putting up a huge facade that he is wealthy just to get Daisy. Gatsby pours every penny he has into making an elaborate mansion, throwing huge rich guy parties, filling his book cases with real books that he will never even cut the pages on, just so he can have Daisy. In this sense Daisy is the embodiment of the american dream.

I will also talk about the symbolism of the piles of used up stuff(aka. orange rines and ashes.) This shows how at one point America and the American dream had so much potential, but has been so corrupted by money and power that it has been destroyed and lost all potential. It has become a pile of ashes that once fueled the world but now it is unobtainable goal that will never be as pure and useful as it once was.