2. Gatsby’s car is significant
because it is flash and showy
just like Gatsby’s personality.
“On week-ends his Rolls-
Royce became an omnibus,
bearing parties to and from
the city between nine in the
morning and long past
midnight while his station
wagon scampered like a brisk
yellow bug to meet all trains. “
“I’d seen it. Everybody had
seen it. It was a rich cream
color, bright with nickel,
swollen here and there in its
monstrous length with
triumphant hat-boxes and
supper-boxes and tool-
boxes, and terraced with a
labyrinth of wind-shields
that mirrored a dozen suns.
Sitting down behind many
layers of glass in a sort of
green leather conservatory ,
we started to town.”
3. “My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and
squeezed between two huge places rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a
season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard-it was a
factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one
side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming
pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s
mansion.”
The importance of Gatsby’s house is that it was directly across from Daisy’s
house. It also was used to show Daisy of his wealth and gain her love.
4. “… he stretched out his arms
toward the dark water in a
curious way, and, far as I was
from him I could have sworn
he was trembling. I glared
seaward- and distinguished
nothing except a single green
light, minute and far away,
that might have been the end
of a dock. When I looked back
once more for Gatsby he had
vanished, and I was alone again
in the unquiet darkness.”
The significance of the green light is that it is the location of
Daisy's house and Gatsby loves her so much that he holds
onto the image of the green light hoping to be with Daisy.
5. “This is a valley of ashes- a fantastic
farm where ashes grow like wheat into
ridges and hills and grotesque
gardens; where ashes take the forms of
houses and chimneys and rising
smoke and, finally, with a
transcendent effort, of men who move
dimly and already crumbling through
the powdery air….The eyes of Doctor
T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-
their retinas are one yard high. They
look out of no face, but, instead, from
a pair of enormous yellow spectacles
which pass a non-exisitent nose.”
This is were Tom’s mistress Myrtle lives with her husband
Tom.
6. “Every Friday five crates of oranges
and lemons arrived from a fruiterer
in New York-every Monday these
same oranges and lemons left his
back door in a pyramid of pulp-less
halves….In the main hall a bar with
real brass rail was set up, and
stocked with gins a liquors and
with cordials so long forgotten that
his female guests were to young to
know one from another.”
The significance of Gatsby's party is that is big, grand,
fancy, and rich all like the young Gatsby. Also Gatsby is
like the oranges and lemons. His party guests use
Gatsby for his parties and alcohol and when its all done
and over they want nothing to do with him.
7. “I want to get one of those dogs,
she said earnestly. I want to get one
for the apartment. They’re nice to
have a dog…”
The significance of the dog is that Myrtle
wants to be more in life and Tom caters to
her and it makes her feel high and mighty.
8. “In the music room Gatsby turned
on a solitary lamp beside the
piano. He lit Daisy’s cigarette from
a trembling match, and sat down
with her on a couch far across the
room, where there was no light
save what the gleaming floor
bounced in from the hall.”
I find this significant because Gatsby
pressures Killspringer to play the
piano to show off a little for Daisy.
