Hello everyone, my name is Mansi Gujadiya. In this PPT I will discuss about some symbols of 'The Great Gatsby'.

1. Symbols of ‘The
Great Gatsby’
Present by Mansi
Gujadiya

2. Personal Information
● Name:- Mansi B. Gujadiya
● Roll No.:- 12
● Enrollment Number:-4069206420220013
● Sem :- 2 ( M.A )
● Paper No.:-106
● Paper Code:-22399
● Paper Name:-The Twentieth Century Literature:1900 to World
War 2
● Topic:- Symbols of ‘The Great Gatsby’
● Submitted to:- Department of English MKBU
● Email:- mansigajjar10131@gmail.com

3. Points to Pounds
● Introduction of Novel
● Symbols
● 1.East and West
● 2.The Green Light
● 3.The Valley of Ashes
● 4.The Eyes of Doctor T.J.Eckleburg
● Conclusion
● Work Cited

4. Introduction of Novel
● F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest work, The Great Gatsby is not only a
great story, but an insight into the flaws of real life during the”
Roaring 5 Twenties.” .
● This novel has been considered by many a symbol for the” Jazz
Age,” a time of extraordinary wealth and promise.
● Novel presenting the truth behind the twenties and creating an
atmosphere which has earned a permanent place in American
literature..

5. Symbols
East and West The Green light
The Eyes of
Doctor
T.J.Eckleburg
The Valley of
Ashes

6. East and West
● East Egg
● The Buchanans live.
● The East, with some allusions to
Europe, is ambition, sin,
drunkenness, a” meretricious
beauty.”
● West Egg
● Nick and Gatsby live.
● West and Mid-West represent
goodness, solidarity, security,
family.
The end of the novel Nick says,” I see now
that this has been a story of the West, after all—
Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were
all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed
some deficiency in common which made us
subdy unadaptable to Eastern life.”

7. The Green Light
● The Great Gatsby present a colourful novel in painting world.
● Green colour traditionally associated with good images such as
spring, hope and youth, is a significant colour in Gatsby’s world.
● Nevertheless, green has a symbolic meaning of despair and instead
hope.
● It is not surprised that colours in this novel imply a lot, reflecting
different lights from different angles.
● Green shows many thoughts, ideas, attitudes, and choices that
Gatsby has throughout the story.

8. The valley of Ashes
● The ashes are made by industry that helps others to be rich. Thus,
it shows the impossibility of the American Dream.
● The valley of ashes, this “solemn dumping ground,” is an industrial
hellscape—a dusty, dismal land of lost dreams and forgotten people.
● Ever vigilant, Doctor TJ Eckleburg bears witness to the valley’s
abjection, to those sacrificed to early-twentieth-century American
material culture, and to Tom’s extramarital affair.

9. The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
● The eyes represent a omniscient god, someone who can see
everything and knows everything .
● The eyes of Doctor TJ Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas
are one yard high.
● His eyes, dimmed a little by many painless days, under sun and rain,
brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
● The faded eyes of Doctor TJ Eckleburg, looming over the impoverished
“valley of ashes” dividing West Egg from New York City,
● The end of the novel, following the car crash that leaves Tom’s mistress
dead, her widowed husband looks to the eyes of Doctor TJ Eckleburg
and prays—as though to God—for strength, salvation, guidance, and
resolution, intoning “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything
you’ve been doing.… God sees everything.”

10. Conclusion
● The Great Gatsby is one of the best novels in the 20th century.
● Symbols in the novel play an important role in giving the reader an
idea about the 1920s and make the reader understand how concrete
things stand for abstract ideas.
● The novel succeeds to combine imagination and vitality in an
analysis of the American culture via using important symbols.

11. Works cited
● Bracken, Rachel Conrad. “The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg and the
Diagnostic Gaze as Moral Authority in the Great Gatsby – Hektoen
International.” Hektoen International – An Online Medical Humanities
Journal, 27 Jan. 2017, https://hekint.org/2017/01/27/the-eyes-of-
doctor-t-j-eckleburg-and-the-diagnostic-gaze-as-moral-authority-in-
the-great-gatsby/.
● “Color Symbolism in the Great Gatsby.” Color Meanings, 9 Feb. 2023,
https://www.color-meanings.com/color-symbolism-in-the-great-
gatsby/.

12. Continue...
● Gamit, Dr.viral. “” Symbols in the Great Gatsby “.” Academia.edu, 3
May 2016,
https://www.academia.edu/24979011/_Symbols_in_The_Great_Gats
by_.
● Guerin, Wilfred Louis. “Wilfred Louis Guerin, Christian Myth and
Naturalistic Deity: The Great Gatsby.” PhilPapers, 1 Jan. 1962,
https://philpapers.org/rec/GUECMA-2.

13. Thank you 😊
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 then
one fine morning—