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Article: Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY.
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Various literary scholars have explored the role of light in The Great Gatsby. Robert Emmet Long has mentioned "the novel's movement [. . .] from light into darkness" (128), and Gatsby himself has been compared to both Apollo (Long 160-61) and Icarus (Wilson 488), mythic figures associated with light and the sun. One can examine this motif more closely by considering the interrelationships among sun-related imagery, the changing of the seasons, and Gatsby's dream of regaining Daisy Buchanan's love. Fitzgerald correlates Daisy with the sun, and although Gatsby vainly attempts to attract her through a dazzling display of artificial light, his eventual failure to hold her ...
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