The End

In the novel The Great Gatsby, various symbols come to mind, for example; the common ones such as the green flashing light, the colorful suits of Gatsby, the eyes of Dr. Eckleberg, or even the yellow car, some people think of these examples almost instantly, some people go even deeper and find even more significant symbols. My group discussed of various objects or places that can be defined as symbols, and while we were brainstorming we came up with the symbol of the empty house when Gatsby died. This house was the scene of many important plots happening in the novel; on the other hand in this house is when Gatsby´s dream of being with Daisy came true, but in the last scenes in the empty house, we can see how those dreams were never real, but pure fantasies, and that even from the start they were slipping away. The empty house means the end of everything. The end of happiness, the end of Daisy, and the end of life.