Red In The Great Gatsby

One would often think of wealth or a high social status. However, it can be closely associated with Autumn leaves which die and decay. Therefore, yellow also symbolizes death and decay. Gatsby buys a yellow car to show Daisy he is wealthy now and that she will not lose her social status if she marries him. One day, Daisy is driving Gatsby’s car back home with him, “The ‘death car’ as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend” (Fitzgerald 144). The car was Gatsby’s yellow car that ran over and killed Myrtle Wilson. The author uses the color yellow to foreshadow death nearby. Another day, Gatsby was walking to his pool with a pneumatic mattress in hand, “Once he stopped and shifted it a little and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees” (Fitzgerald 169). This happens right before Gatsby is shot and killed by Mr. George Wilson. The note of yellowing trees foreshadows Gatsby’s death. The color yellow is used in “The Great Gatsby” to symbolize materialism and death. Fitzgerald uses colors to foreshadow events and hint at a larger meaning of an object.

Similar to white projecting honesty and purity, Fitzgerald also uses it to symbolize perfection. Daisy, always in white, was perfect in Gatsby's eyes. He lived his life around her, in order to reclaim her. Just as Daisy's whiteness symbolized perfection to Gatsby, the white world of the upper class was the epitome of perfection for Myrtle Wilson, Tom's mistress. To Myrtle, the perfect life would be to live like Daisy, to be wealthy. Although she lives in the valley of ashes as the wife of a garage owner, she feels she belongs with the upper class. She stakes claim in high society through Tom, but will never be fully able to gain access to their elite world. Fitzgerald shows her attempt to become “white” through her clothing. When she is first seen in the novel, she is wearing “a spotted dress of dark blue” (Fitzgerald, 25).

This color also signifies neutrality as Daisy is stuck in the middle between her relationships with Gatsby and Tom. Daisy’s drunk self admits her love for Gatsby. “His hear beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that once he kissed this girl… His mind would never romp again” (Fitzgerald 6.110).

Colors can invoke feelings for people. Certain colors are attached to moods. Red can represent anger, green sometimes represents envy and blue can represent calm or even melancholy. Much art, music, and literature is dependent on color to convey the intended mood of the artist. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, a man with wealth, power, and possessions is on a quest for the dream that he will never attain. He cannot have all that he already has plus the true love of Daisy. Fitzgerald creates his own unique motifs surrounding certain colors and uses these colors to emphasize the futility in Gatsby’s quest for this dream. Through the use

What do colors say about a person? Well according to personality innovator Don Lowry, there are four colors to represent the types of people in the world. green’s are thinkers, gold’s are planners, orange’s are impulsive, and blue’s are compassionate. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the character of Jay Gatsby is best represented by the color blue. Gatsby’s personality best fits this color because blue’s are willing to work hard for what they believe in and are very caring for others.

Throughout literature, colors are used to represent feelings, emotions and actions of characters. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the color green is used to represent the love story between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. As he grew up and worked for his immense fortune, Gatsby transformed his life into one he felt would impress her the most. Fitzgerald uses the color green to represent Gatsby’s perfect image of Daisy, and the greed that engulfs the couple throughout the entire novel.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has deeper information hidden by colors all over the book. Each color has its own significant meaning and connects to the story in some way. From nearly all the colors on the rainbow to the color grey, there is a connection between these buried meanings behind all of the colors. Green is the most important color throughout the book because of special meanings and roles it plays on all of the characters. The color green relates to wealth and success on almost all of the characters. Gatsby is the one who brings this color to life and connects with it to show how it takes part in this story.

The author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, reveals the issues of money, happiness, and the unattainable which separated the privileged and unprivileged. Fitzgerald hints to the reader numerous times of the issues of money and how it can ultimately affect a character's life. The main character of The Great Gatsby, demonstrate the struggle of the 20s and how somethings can be within arms reach but cannot be grasped. All throughout the novel, Jay Gatsby, struggles to keep, Daisy Buchanan, the woman he loves, happy enough. Due to the separation of money, Gatsby is identified as a man of “new money”, this makes it hard for Gatsby to achieve his dream of reuniting with Daisy. The color green is used to show Gatsby’s dream and how he struggles to obtain the unobtainable. He hints poverty and hopelessness through the color gray. The author presents the color white in order to expose the true nature of Daisy Buchanan and the privileges of living in the west egg. Fitzgerald uses colors to symbolize the inequality between social classes of the 1920s, ultimately proving that money does not guarantee happiness.

Colors are an essential part of the world around us. They can convey messages, expressing that which words do not. Gentle blue tones can calm a person and bright yellows can lift the spirits. If an artist is trying to express sorrow or death he often uses blacks blues, and grays basically he uses dreary colors. Without one word, a driver approaching a red traffic light knows to stop. Colors are representative of many things. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism throughout as a major device in thematic and character development. He uses colors to symbolize the many different intangible ideas in the book. Throughout the book characters, places, and objects are given "life" by colors, especially the more

One of the symbols that Fitzgerald took advantage of was color. If he made a point to mention or emphasize a specific color in the book, it most likely had meaning to it. One of the main issues in the Great Gatsby was materialism and greed. For example, one character is named Daisy. Her name shows that she is like the flower; white or pure looking on the outside, but yellow and corrupted on the inside. For example, when Gatsby went to war, she wouldn’t wait for him and started to date other men. “Suddenly she was again, keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men,” (Fitzgerald, 151). Then later in the book, Daisy accidentally hit Myrtle with a car. “The ‘death car’ as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend,” (Fitzgerald, 137). However, instead of trying to help out or admit to her mistake, Daisy wouldn’t say anything, letting everyone

Color imagery in The Great Gatsby is vital to the books storyline. If there was no color imagery then the reader could not associate a certain person or thing with a color or idea. Fitzgerald uses the color so people can remember the person more than just their name. The use of color imagery greatly impacts the story line.

     F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, uses symbolism throughout the novel to create the characters and events of the post World War I period. Colors are one way symbolism was used to develop the characters’ personalities and set up events. This is shown by colors like the green at the end of Daisy Buchannan’s dock, the color of Jay Gatsby’s car and how Myrtle and Jordan surrounded themselves by white. Other symbolisms used to set up events are the difference in the people of the West Egg and East Egg and the sign in the “valley of ashes”.

Fitzgerald's use of colors in The Great Gatsby is important in understanding the story and every chapter. The color Green is used fairly often throughout the novel and represents growth, harmony, freshness, safety, fertility, and environment. Green is also traditionally associated with money, finances, banking, ambition, greed and jealousy (bourncreative.com). Through the character of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the color green to represent Gatsby’s greed and jealousy, his jealousy is towards Tom and Daisy because he loves Daisy but can't have her.

Lastly, blue represents the presence of Tom and his constant interference of Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship. Tom is often symbolized by water, and it seems that there is always water or Tom himself whenever Daisy and Gatsby are together. Water is blue and Gatsby dies in a pool as he is shot by Wilson. The pool symbolizes Renewal and Transformation. As Gatsby is swimming in his pool for the first time all summer, George Wilson who is thirsty for revenge walks up to the pool and shoots him dead. Gatsby gets shot and dies in the water. His death is a symbol for a baptism. In a way he is cleansed of all his wrong doings throughout his life and is relieved of all of his stress. Fitzgerald depicts the presence of Tom as a nearly unsurpassable obstacle

“At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” (##). Roses are red, violets are blue, Daisy Buchanan is rich, misleading, and rude. Misleading a world that means to lead on in a wrong direction. Daisy, shallow materialistic Daisy Buchanan, lives right across the bay from Mr. Jay himself. Every night, wonder boy goes to the end of his dock to stare out into the distance. He finds himself gazing at the green light at the end of the Buchanan’s dock. This green light can symbolize many things wit in the book. This simple light could represent the desire burning inside Gatsby to achieve the goal of getting Daisy or it could stand for his dream of her and how he can not reach it no matter how hard he tries. Little does Daisy know, she is the whole reason Gatsby showed up out of the blue. She, Daisy Buchanan, is Jay Gatsby’s