![]() ![]() Gatsby’s car is an embodiment of his wealth. ![]() In the American Society the car is always seen as a symbol of status. The car plays a major role that makes a regular appearance in the story. They symbolically sit in judgment on all the sleaze displayed by the inhabitants of East and West egg who pass through the valley of ashes. The eyes that look over Wilson’s home also have a symbolic meaning. The valley is home of Tom’s mistress, “Myrtle Wilson, the wife of the owner of a garage in the ash heaps that lie along the road about halfway between West Egg and Manhattan,” and is incidentally fitting(Bruccoli 10). The valley of ashes in which Wilson’s house is located in symbolizes the moral decay that hides behind the facade of wealth and happiness. Eckleburg “brood on over the solemn dumping ground” of Wilson’s house (28). His home symbolizes what he is, a mechanic, and is located in the valley of ashes overlooked by the eyes of Dr. Wilson “a blonde, spiritless man” lives in his “unprosperous and bare” garage(Fitzgerald 29)(29). Another person who lives on the nouveau-rich West Egg is Gatsby. Nick comes from a “prominent, well-to-do ” acts like the established rich down-played, but he is trying to make it on his own and his house located in West Egg symbolizes this(Fitzgerald 7). Nick is the Narrator and also the “trust worthy reporter and, … judge” that has ties to both the East and West Egg crowd(Bruccoli xii). His house symbolizes himself shy and overlooked. Nick lives in a new-rich West Egg because he is not wealthy enough to afford a house in the more prominent East Egg. Nick lives in West Egg in a rented house that “ a small eye-sore” and “had been overlooked”(Fitzgerald 10). This sense symbolizes Tom’s brutality, and as Perkins’s says in his manuscript to Fitzgerald “I would know…īuchanan if I met him and would avoid him,” because Tom is so cold and brute (Perkins 199). The House also has a cold sense to it according to Nick. Their stable wealth, although lacking the vulgarity of new wealth, is symbolic of their empty future and now purposelessness lives together. East egg and Toms home represents the established wealth and traditions. ![]() Their house, a “red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay” with its “wine-colored rug” is just as impressive as Gatsby’s house but much more low-key (Fitzgerald 11)(13). Tom’s and Daisy’s home is on the East Egg. East Egg is home to the more prominent established wealth families. The Buchanan’s house is symbolic of their ideals. Gatz’s house is a mixture of different styles and periods which symbolizes an owner who does not know their true identity. Gatsby’s house like his car symbolizes his vulgar and excessive trait of getting attention. He needs “The house he feels he needs in order to win happiness” and it is also the perfect symbol of carelessness with money which is a major part of his personality (Bewley 24). Gatsbys large income isnt enough to keep him happy. ![]()
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