What Does The House Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

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"It was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby's mansion."(page 8 )

Gatsby's house reveals a little about Gatsby though we have not met him yet He is clearly rich and has a huge property and paints a picture of gatsby's life. nick clearly states the houses traits and how gatsby's wealth is relevant to the story

"i woke up out of the ether with an udderly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl ,she told me it was a girl so i turned my head away and wept ‘all right’ i said ‘i'm glad it's a girl. And i hope she's a fool’-that's all
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“You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” ’It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.’(page )

Nick tells gatsby that he approves of him and how he thinks of gatsby to be better than everyone else it wa nick's last words to gatsby and nick glad he said that to gatsby,because he had never complemented the man he desired to one day become he envied gatsby and all he had, but nothing meant anything to gatsby unless it was with daisy.

- "She was the first "nice" girl he had ever known. In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. He found her excitingly desirable."( page )

Gatsby is identifying her to be different then other girls and that she has different traits she seemed more real and lively to gatsby she was perfect for her and he had desired her to be at his side. she was someone different something gatsby just couldn't give up or throw away she was something he needed

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“I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them”(page

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