Assignment task: These questions are for chapters 1-3 in the Great Gatsby novel:
White:
Q1. What is the traditional symbolic significance of the color white?
Q2. Does this compare or contrast with the symbolic use of white in the first part of the novel? Give examples and explain how these examples uphold your definition, above.
Time:
Q3. Where does the reader encounter references to time?
Q4. What items does Fitzgerald use to reinforce time as symbolic?
Q5. What do all of these references to time symbolize, especially when you consider Gatsby's dream?