‘The Great Gatsby’ is an interesting novella about the intertwining lives of those who are striving for the artificial American Dream

The corking Gatsby is an interesting novella ab show up the intertwining outlives of those who be striving for the artificial American imagine. It is a story of contrasts the rich and poor, the loved and unloved and the different aspects of purchase order that are shown in this flight through dramatic symbolization and passing structured replicates.The parallels between the first and third chapters show rich and permit animationstyles, first the support of Tom and Daisy then Gatsbys party. This passage is conveniently lay between the two to show the real world of the likes of Wilson and other construedy, ash- white-haired men. It helps us to understand Myrtle as a character. Her hopes and dreams to get a government agency from this life that is a constant fight back. This as well as describes the way both Gasby and the author Fitzgerald lived as children, and therefore their reasons to follow their dreams and aspire to something better. These parallels are a typical example of how novellas are tightly structured.We are direct to believe that Nick is the narrator of this passage, however Nick has never been to the stadium before so when it is described cinematically and we are told of how passengers on trains wait for as long as half an hour we realize Nick could non have previously known this and therefore it is told to us straightway by Fitzgerald. This poses a problem because the reader knows and trusts Nick but not Fitzgerald so he manipulates the reader into thinking it is Nick so that we believe him.The drawbridge in the final paragraph symbolises how it is not easily to get out of the valley of Ashes, reflecting how it is not easy to get out of a catchy life and achieve the American Dream. Myrtle tries hard in the novella to do this, and for a while Gatsby does, which is one reason why we see him as a hero.Images of how the American Dream has died are shown in the Valley of Ashes. Ash is symbolic of death, as in ashes to ashes, dust to dust, a traditional phrase at funerals. In the Valley of Ashes everything is bare, dull, lifeless and dead. It is base on the Corona Dump in Queens, which Fitzgerald famously resented on sight. He also nicknamed the Corona Dump the Valley of Ashes. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck also mentions ash pile in the beginning of the novel about the struggle to reach an American Dream. Death is represented by ash later onward on in the novella when Gatsby is described as ashen after his death. He was born in ash and died as ash. His life started as a struggle in a poor area and although he died wealthy, he still died in ash. The dust which drifts endlessly could symbolise shards of the American Dream which are helplessly out of reach of the people who live here, but drift in the air to taunt them about what they could become.The repeal valley of ashes reflects the empty lives of the people who live in it. Occasionally grey cars enter the desolate area, so they made occasional brea ks in the emptiness. This is parallel to the empty lives of the inhabitants. Occasionally there is a break and they have visions of hope, such(prenominal) as Myrtles aspiration to be rich in a life with Tom. This also reflects Gatsbys funeral which was empty apart from Nick and Gatsbys father. Fitzgerald thought of himself as a failure as his writings were not particularly successful during his lifetime, so he may have had himself in mind when describing these lives wih failed hopes and empty dreams.This passage also gives the impression that morality in the modern world has died. As its place in the novel, the passage is between Nick meeting Toms wife and Toms mistress, his situation proves Toms lack of morals. The passage is the no-mans land between the two women. Nick, the unaccompanied character proved to have morals in the novella, is introduced to the eyes of reinstate T. J. Eckleburg on an advertising board. The blue and gigantic eyes look checkmate over the Valley of Ash es and this could be interpreted as God observance over his world. This idea is later strengthened when Wilson looks up at him and refers to him directly as God. Eckleburg, however, wears enormous yellow spectacles and also his vision is sunless with dust, and as we see God as our all-seeing moral guide, this could symbolise a lack of moral guidance in the jazz age of the 1920s. in that respect is no-one to show people the way. Doctor T. J. Eckleburg is another good example of symbolism in the passage.Sight is the link between the three paragraphs of this passage. It moves from sight macrocosm obscured by ash and dust, to clarity of sight which is implied by how suddenly the report switches from grey and dull areas to the bright colours blue and yellow on the all-seeing symbol of T. J. Eckleburg, to train passegers observing whats going on. These are the three ship canal that Fitzgerald wants us to see the characters, from all angles. An example is how we learn about Gatsby and his life becomes clearer to us by the end of the novella.Life and death are symbolised by T. J. Eckleburg and ash in this passage and they are described intertwined so as to make it impossible to work out where one ends and another begins. However, more often than not this passage is mostly about death the death of morality, the American Dream and the death of hope. Without these three things, the lives of the people in the area were totally meaningless. Tony Tanners ingeminate about how the narrator respnds reflects the readers response to this realisation.Nick cannot tolerate the thought of confronting a reality that is merely poor and bare, dust-covered and wrecked. There must be more than that.