The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby, exposes the corruption and greed of the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald is able to captivate readers' attentions through his employment of color symbolism. Fitzgerald portrays important messages in the novel by his symbolic use of colors. Colors play an important role in Fitzgerald’s descriptions of the lives of Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and many of the other characters in the novel. Fitzgerald uses the colors white, yellow, and green to express certain sentiments to the reader, commenting what is going on in the story. Fitzgerald uses the color white to symbolize purity and innocence, while yellow is used to symbolize moral decay, and death. Green is used to represent hope and

Colors have a large impact on society. They have the ability to affect people’s moods, appetites, and behaviors. Colors also have the ability to act as symbols. For example, the color white often acts as a symbol of innocence, and the color yellow often represents happiness. Throughout the book The Great Gatsby, multiple colors symbolize different aspects of Jay Gatsby’s life.

Color creates change in the setting and the mood. The colors in The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald define the Character Jay Gatsby. The colors that are used to define Jay’s character is blue, green, gold and yellow.

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

The color green is used by the author to represent that the reaching of something unattainable can lead to failure. Throughout the novel, Gatsby struggles to reach his American dream. In the past, Gatsby strongly feels as though Daisy doesn't want to be with him because he wasn't rich, so Gatsby began to seek wealth. The green light first appear at the end of the first

Green is the last large color imagery in The Great Gatsby. The color green is a tremendous thing for Gatsby. He almost worships the green light at the

     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”.

In the novel, “ The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, colors such as blue, green, and yellow are used to suggest a deeper meaning behind actions and events, by utilizing colors to represent how the character feels, explain the character’s motives, and display their goals or aspirations.

The most noticeable colours to come across are green and white. Green colour stands for peace along with Gatsby’s perseverance to marry his love, Daisy. This colour maintained perception of many changes, opinions, and beliefs which Gatsby faced throughout the novel. Green meant dedication and peace, too. Green light also was depicted by at the end of Daisy's dock. F. Scott Fitzgerald used this colour to describe the life of Gatsby as peaceful before he meets Daisy again. After their reunification, they were in Gatsby’s bedroom, looking at the bay. Gatsby looked and pointed out the green light and said “If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay” (92). Then he continued “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock” (92). It was portrayed as a Gatsby’s long-life love to Daisy. He had been looking at the light as well. Later in the book, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "His dream must have seemed so close that

When an artist paints a picture, they use vibrant greens and reds and contrast with dull blues and purples. In literature, the same technique can be used. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work, The Great Gatsby, he gives greater meaning to his characters and their experiences by using color imagery. The Great Gatsby, set in 1920s New York, shows the differences between the life of the prosperous and the impoverished. Fitzgerald uses the colors gold, yellow, green, and white to expand the meaning and purpose of different elements and to express the themes of wealth, society and class, memory, and compassion.

Gatsby has many colors in the book; the first one being a green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Green symbolizes Gatsby’s deep love for Daisy and his American dream. Later on in the book the water between Gatsby and Daisy becomes green. Yellow is another color color connected to Gatsby and is represented as fake gold. Gatsby’s car is also yellow which is a symbol of failure to enter New York’s high society and was the color that represented Gatsby’s tie. Furthermore, yellow or gold symbolizes money, high social position, destructive power and death. Blue is another color that’s all over Gatsby’s house: hid blue garden, the blue smoke of brittle leaves, a blue lawn and a blue livery. Cody also buy’s Gatsby a blue coat and a woman comes to

In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is exemplified through many symbols and idols. Fitzgerald uses cars to represent wealth, success, status, and glamour. As Friedrich Nietzsche states, “There are more idols in the world than there are realities.” Nietzsche’s quote shows how idols and symbols are used to create impressions. Images are powerful and set a stage for others to judge one’s character, enabling human beings to avoid seeing what realities are. Idols are potent enough to mask the truth. In the novel, despite Gatsby 's own insecurities, he is viewed as an idol in society. Idols impact and influence Gatsby’s life and those living around him. Gatsby’s car represents an idol, illustrating his wealth, capturing attention, creating impressions, and covering misconceptions throughout life in the West Egg.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, provides a dark and pessimistic outlook into the American life style in 1922. Jay Gatsby, an American wealthy social identity, appears to have it all. But wealth, stature and an extravagant lifestyle seems not to be enough for Gatsby; he still yearns for his old idealistic love Daisy. In an ideal world this has the making of a great love story with a happy ending, but Fitzgerald chose to carry the story as a reflection of the American era the book is set in. An era consumed by appearances and excess and overall pursuit of the American dream.

Green is the color of spring, which symbolizes confidence, vitality and hope. In the Great Gatsby, the color green is closely associated with the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. It symbolizes Gatsby’s deep love to Daisy and his American Dream. But as the green light is always feeble and far away, it also indicates the disillusionment of his dream. In other words, the green light symbolizes hope. It symbolizes hope because, Gatsby sees this light as the hope of him and Daisy being together at one point. It shows Gatsby’s love towards her because you can see how he really feels about her when he tries to grab the light by stretching his arm as far as he can. This shows how Gatsby desperately tries to get Daisy’s heart but her heart is too far away from him. This light also signifies how close he is to Daisy, he think he can just grab her of how close he think he is to her, but this can also be a disillusionment to his dreams because the light is always distant and far from him and he will never grab it just like he could never have Daisy. Throughout this novel we can see Gatsby’s affection towards this light, this light is very important and we see it being reference back and forth throughout the whole book. This color made the novel more vivid, more colorful, more dreamlike, more visionary and more profound. It helps the reader connect with the book. You can relate to Gatsby’s feeling when he sees the light and he tries to grab it and it makes the moment even more

Some of the most well-known and intriguing symbolic imagery in The Great Gatsby comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of the color green. Fitzgerald used green primarily to represent two human traits in Gatsby: longing for things beyond one’s