Do you believe in love and first site, Do you believe that hard work pays off? In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby the flowers and rose represent love and emotion throughout the novel. Fitzgerald's purpose is to exemplify the idea that love can blind you and you don't always get what you want which can sometimes lead to death or corruption. The motif of the flower and rose illustrates the greater themes of beauty and love can be deceiving, and death, corruption of the american dream.
The author uses the flowers to represent the greater theme of beauty and love being able to miss deceive you. We can see this throughout the novel as daisy constantly is getting compared or being referenced from gatsby's point of view as a beautiful …show more content…
We are able to see this in the end of the book when nick is talking about how Daisy never sent a flower or message after she had found out that Gatsby had died. We are able to see this on page 174 as nick says “Daisy hadn't sent a message or a flower”(Fitzgerald). What this is implying is that even after Daisy had fallen in love with gatsby again she didn't bother to send a flower or some to his funeral but instead run away to the city with Tom. This connects to the other quote where gatsby buys daisy a bunch of flowers because we are now able to see that the flowers flowers hold a bigger meaning than just flowers. This is shown through Daisy that you can be in love with the outside of something but the inside can be miss deceiving and not love you after all. Another example of this can be seen when nick is talking about how gatsby must find how a grotesque thing a rose was implying Daisy and the quote above. We are able to see this on page 161 when nick says “ I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer scared. 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). What this quote is representing is that even when you think you have everything figured out it can all change and become something else. This is also representing the idea that not everything lives forever and the rose is supposed to be Gatsby and Daisy's love for each other and in the end of the book as we can see it
The author uses the flowers to represent the greater theme of beauty and love being able to miss deceive you. We can see this throughout the novel as daisy constantly is getting compared or being referenced from gatsby's point of view as a beautiful …show more content…
We are able to see this in the end of the book when nick is talking about how Daisy never sent a flower or message after she had found out that Gatsby had died. We are able to see this on page 174 as nick says “Daisy hadn't sent a message or a flower”(Fitzgerald). What this is implying is that even after Daisy had fallen in love with gatsby again she didn't bother to send a flower or some to his funeral but instead run away to the city with Tom. This connects to the other quote where gatsby buys daisy a bunch of flowers because we are now able to see that the flowers flowers hold a bigger meaning than just flowers. This is shown through Daisy that you can be in love with the outside of something but the inside can be miss deceiving and not love you after all. Another example of this can be seen when nick is talking about how gatsby must find how a grotesque thing a rose was implying Daisy and the quote above. We are able to see this on page 161 when nick says “ I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer scared. 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). What this quote is representing is that even when you think you have everything figured out it can all change and become something else. This is also representing the idea that not everything lives forever and the rose is supposed to be Gatsby and Daisy's love for each other and in the end of the book as we can see it