The Garden of Gatsby Flower imagery is a popular trend in literature. The symbolism and imagery of flowers are greatly important to the themes and characters of The Great Gatsby. Elements of wealth, secrecy, and dying dreams are all represented by flower imagery in this novel. Symbolism of a rose majorly defines Nick Carraway. Daisy says, “I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a – of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn't he?” She turned to Miss Baker for confirmation: “An absolute rose?” (Fitzgerald 14) The rose represents secrecy and confidentiality, which Nick possesses in many instances. Nick keeps the secret of Tom and Myrtle’s affair from Daisy, even though he watched it happen right in front of him. He also stays quiet
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If that was true that he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at the unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass,” (Fitzgerald 161)
Nick realizes that Gatsby saw how grotesque a rose really is. The rose represents love, therefore he saw how grotesque love really is. Love brought him death, what could be more grotesque? While a rose is representative of Nick’s character, the daisy represents a character no other than Daisy herself. The colors of the daisy are white and yellow. White is for innocence and purity, which Gatsby would believe fits Daisy well. He sees her only as the perfect woman, and she could never do anything wrong. However, the center of a daisy is yellow, for corruption and money. This is truly the definition of her character. Her whole life is money. When Daisy hit Myrtle with her car, she ran home to her abusive husband and left Gatsby behind, never speaking to him again. She went back to her safe place, her money. She is a free murderer with all the money in the world. Consequently, wealth has completely corrupted her. Nick says this in a marvelous way, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated …show more content…
When Daisy was coming over to Nick’s house, Gatsby bought hundreds of flowers for her that covered Nick’s house. This tremendous amount of flowers shows how clouded Gatsby has become by money. He feels that if he buys her flowers, he will therefore buy her love. The way the flowers were brought to the house also shows how much wealth means to his daily life. Nick says, “The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it. An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby, in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and a gold colored tie, hurried in,” (Fitzgerald 84). Gatsby could not even bring over the flowers himself, he had his employees do it. His wealth has made him unable to act like a normal human being and bring over a regular- size bouquet of flowers himself. Everything in his life must be extravagant and expensive, simply because he can afford it. He even went as far as to throw huge parties every weekend, just so Daisy would come. Everything he does for love and for Daisy is with
If that was true that he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at the unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass,” (Fitzgerald 161)
Nick realizes that Gatsby saw how grotesque a rose really is. The rose represents love, therefore he saw how grotesque love really is. Love brought him death, what could be more grotesque? While a rose is representative of Nick’s character, the daisy represents a character no other than Daisy herself. The colors of the daisy are white and yellow. White is for innocence and purity, which Gatsby would believe fits Daisy well. He sees her only as the perfect woman, and she could never do anything wrong. However, the center of a daisy is yellow, for corruption and money. This is truly the definition of her character. Her whole life is money. When Daisy hit Myrtle with her car, she ran home to her abusive husband and left Gatsby behind, never speaking to him again. She went back to her safe place, her money. She is a free murderer with all the money in the world. Consequently, wealth has completely corrupted her. Nick says this in a marvelous way, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated …show more content…
When Daisy was coming over to Nick’s house, Gatsby bought hundreds of flowers for her that covered Nick’s house. This tremendous amount of flowers shows how clouded Gatsby has become by money. He feels that if he buys her flowers, he will therefore buy her love. The way the flowers were brought to the house also shows how much wealth means to his daily life. Nick says, “The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it. An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby, in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and a gold colored tie, hurried in,” (Fitzgerald 84). Gatsby could not even bring over the flowers himself, he had his employees do it. His wealth has made him unable to act like a normal human being and bring over a regular- size bouquet of flowers himself. Everything in his life must be extravagant and expensive, simply because he can afford it. He even went as far as to throw huge parties every weekend, just so Daisy would come. Everything he does for love and for Daisy is with