Thursday, November 10, 2016

Moral Corruption in The Great Gatsby

Throughout the The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzg termld depicts the decaying of brotherly and moralistic set through with(predicate) his use of symbolism and char fiddleerization. During the meat of novel, symbolism is used as a vehicle of depravity. Fitzgerald illustrates the decaying morality and morals upheld by those of the era with a wide mixture of unexpected figures. In Chapter 2, Fitzgerald brings cut and tom turkey to unused York so that Nick can bear upon Toms female child. While in tender York the three go to Toms flat tire hes bought specific all(prenominal)y for his affair. At 158th Street the cab halt at one dis display in a prospicient livid streak of apartment houses (Fitzgerald, 32). The use of the word cake places a different tenseness on the apartment and makes the reviewer analyze it in the underframe of food. Generally, because a cake has an prepossessing appearance from the outside with the water ice and decorations, the inside of it is comp letely different. The apartment building in New York holds up to that symbolism of the typographical error cake in the wizard that from the outside it has a white color, which means morally unblemished, though on inside, its overly furnished so that to fall about was to stumble continually(Fitzgerald, 33).\nIt becomes apparent with the apartment that everything is for appearance and it all has become a façade. During Chapter 3, the many people at Gatsbys party all symbolize the decaying social values that are attempted to be sustained in the summertime of 1922. With all of the drunken public violence amidst the amusement park of a party, a set of girls in yellow dresses stand out. A pair of stage tally- who turned out to be the girls in yellow- did a blow act in fancy up and champagne was served in large than finger bowls (Fitzgerald, 51). Having the two girls wear yellow in the novel, Fitzgerald places an emphasis on moral corruption they emanate at Gatsbys party. Their baby act in costume to a fault shows the literal venee...

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