Symbolistic Gatsby

New York City: a place of wonder that people visit just to see anything and everything on any and every day of the week. In our times in New York City a person relieving themselves on the sidewalk or someone stumbling around drunk are both observed and during the 1920’s a person could witness the same. During his life as a rich man F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote powerful encounters about life during the 1920's in New York City. His most famous novel, The Great Gatsby is full of symbolism which makes the reader think deeper. Through the East and West Eggs, the Valley of Ashes and T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes, and the green light readers can begin to fully understand Fitzgerald's symbolic meanings behind everything in his novel.
The East and West Eggs and the bay between symbolize social class in The Great Gatsby. Characters like Tom and Daisy live in East Egg where they have been born and bred into a world of money and class. By the way Fitzgerald writes about Tom and Daisy of East Egg ca...