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    Throughout the novel, it can be seen that the most common color accompanying with Gatsby is yellow. With this color, the author skillfully implies what kind of outer self Gatsby intends to show before others. Yellow is the color of gold, which symbolizes money, materialism and high social position. First, yellow stands out as the color that represents new money and wealth acquired. According to Fitzgerald, “On week−ends his Rolls−Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between

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    Colors are very apparent in The Great Gatsby. They often show up as descriptions to many important items throughout the book, and make those items resemble symbols. The color white confuses the reader, and often causes him/her to rethink their logic. It describes false purity and deception within something, which is very apparent in the character Daisy in this novel. The color grey gives the reader a comparison, and that is of humans to machines. Something that is lifeless is described as grey. After

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    literature, color symbolizes a wide variety from emotions to political status. When someone is feeling upset one often says “I’m feeling blue” or when someone is mad their face turns red giving that color the association with anger. Political status even uses color to represent each party, one is usually either a blue democrat or red republican. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby” color plays a significant role throughout the story symbolizing emotions and social rankings. Colors such as

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    Some colors reconcile other colors, some colors clash wth emotion.The book the great Gatsby is a rather interesting book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He also wrote other famous books like The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button In the book. The Great Gatsby, The author F. Scott Fitzgerald is using the colors to show irony and emotion to tell the story. The character jay Gatsby is very interesting and very eccentric for a person like him but the colors tell a different story. To honestly break it

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    Color In The Great Gatsby

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    Colors are used every day in the world around us. Often, colors are used to interpret different images and develop a deeper meaning. During the 1920s, the world began to be occupied with colors that epitomized new ideas and new beliefs. These new ideas and beliefs throughout the roaring 20s were established off of status, as people began to enjoy life more. Out of these ideas, came pieces of literature such as Scott F. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby that embraced the new idea of colors being used

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    The Colors of Life The helpful acronym “ROY G. BIV” is used to aid in the remembering the order that the colors appear in the rainbow. Colors are everywhere: the flowers that grow along the sidewalk, the shirts that we wear, the cars on the road, and the environment around us. Colors even have the ability to relay information to us, for example, whether it will rain or not based on the color of the sky and clouds, no to touch a snake if certain colors touch, or even is someone is angry based on

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    The Great Gatsby Color

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    with where they stand in relation to others. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby displays his efforts to reach his goals in comparison with Tom Buchanan, who has everything Gatsby ever wanted. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses a variation of color combinations throughout the novel to enhance Gatsby’s unrealistic ideals because of his desire to achieve the American Dream. White and gold’s relationship throughout the novel

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    Color In The Great Gatsby

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    In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolism makes the novel stand out, giving the characters and objects life. Among all the symbols Fitzgerald employs, color, in particular, symbolizes the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters in instances such as Tom’s blue car and the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald uses color as a major device in character development showing the many intangible ideas Fitzgerald adds to the novel. There are five major

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    Color In The Great Gatsby

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    Relevant to Porter’s evince in the novel of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby a guy who cannot leave his past, constantly wanting to change everything back to the past with his former lover Daisy but never succeeds due to people’ desire of meliorate their lives. During this process the novel also reveals that there’s no distinction of careless between people in the 1920’s and the corruption of American Dream. Fitzgerald uses color symbolism to reveal the unfaithful condition of

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    YELLOW & Wilson’s Garage: The color yellow is considered to be the unauthentic version of gold. As previously stated, gold is a color of richness and value which is why we it is clearly visible in the Gatsby household. Yellow on the other hand, is quite inferior when compared to the standards of gold. In contrast to Jordan, the golden girl, her admirers are merely, “two girls in twin yellow dresses.” (Fitzgerald.47) They are so unimportant that they aren’t even called by their names. They are simply

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