It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to covey. It faced-or seemed to face- the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. "He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. Gorgeous Actress (112) 'Gatsby indicated a. These pearls represent the corruption in society, showing that Daisy was easily influenced by Toms wealth. Daisy is torn up between both men, but eventually takes Toms wealth over Gatsbys pure love.
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“I had reached the point in believing everything and nothing about him" (97) Ladder (119) 'Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the treeshe could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder. Leading up to Daisy and Toms wedding, Daisy receives beautiful pearls from Tom, but also a letter from Gatsby regarding his love for her. "On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the whole world and it’s mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn. "At his lips touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete." (107)
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"Daisy, gleaming like silver safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor" (142) Gatsby created this wealth to impress Daisy. Both Gatsby and Daisy have wealth, but there is a difference between his new money and her old money. The color green also symbolizes wealth and jealousy. As said before it stands fro the memories of Daisy. "I hope she'll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (22) The color green is seen prominently as the green light that Gatsby watches. "I am one of the few honest people I have ever known" (59) "The premature moon, produced like the supper, no doubt, out of a caterer’s basket." (44) “Two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all” (12) "I had no sight into daisy heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game." (12)