The Great Gatsby Figurative Language Analysis

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A Romanticized Concept in The Great Gatsby

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” F Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly summarizes Gatsby’s devotion and stubborn tendencies through the use of symbolism to portray the affection between Daisy and Gatsby throughout the novel, especially in his use of the green light at the end of Daisy and Tom Buchanan’s dock. In The Great Gatsby, the green light symbolizes an idealistic future of Gatsby’s, enchanted by desire and nostalgia, which is shown through tone, character, and figurative language.
Fitzgerald uses figurative language strategically throughout the text, metaphors in particular, to compliment some of his main themes, including love, memory,
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