Dan Cody

Jame Gatz is one of the main characters in "The Great Gatsby". The story pretty much revolves around him. When he was 17 he decided to change his name to Jay Gatsby, witch was when he also started his "career". He started to "work" for a wealthy man named Dan Cody. Dan was a softminded and niave person, who was taken advantage of by many women. He had a very serious drinking problem and was often drunk. Gatsby became his steward, mate, skipper, secratary, and over all sitter. Dan Cody trusted Gatsby very much because of the many years of service. Cody died and left $25,000 to Gatsby, witch he never received due to Cody's mistress. Dan Cody is an important figure in "The Great Gatsby" because influences Jay Gatsby alot. He motivates Gatsby to make himself a wealth and sucessful man. Cody's death also englightened Gatsby to the dangers of excesive drinking, which is why Gatsby drinks little.

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The Green Light

"The Great Gatsby" is a full of many great literary devices. One, being a more well known symbol in the book, is "the green light" that is first introduced when Gatsby reaches out for it in an ernest way. The main reason for Gatsby's passionate interest in the light is the fact that it is were Daisy, the women he loves, lives. Later in the book it is confirmed that the green light is actually located at the end of Daisy's dock. Gatsby's attitude and the mysterious nature of the green light makes it a symbol of Gatsby's hope. Hope for the future, a future with Daisy. Green is said to be the color of promise and hope, so it fits the story perfect. Whether F. Scott Fitzgerald put that much thought or research into it is unknown. It is used a couple different ways in the story. The green light symbolizes the joyful and the distraught along with it and the "wasteland" between west and east egg. Its used to compare Gatsby's dreams of being with Daisy and failing due to material objects. Fitzgerald does this by saying Gatsby's wish is like explorers discovery of wealth, they're both foiled by wealth and material objects.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author who lived from 1896 to 1940 when he died from a heart attack at the age of 44. He wrote many novels and short stories which reflected the 1920's or the "Jazz Age", a term that he himself made popular. Fitzgerald is regarded as on of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Throughout his life time he finished 4 novels, The Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night, and his most famous work, The Great Gatsby. Many short stories were also published during his lifetime that dealt with "youth and age along with promise and despair". The legacy Fitzgerald left with his "masterpiece", The Great Gatsby, has been inspiring writers ever since it had been published. His books are all in general considered extremely well written and put together. F. Scott Fitzgerald lived a short life due to illness he gained from drinking alcohol and died at a relatively young age, 44, but the works and ideas he left behind has and will inspire many authors.