From the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed, your life is filled with colors. Everywhere you look there is an object that contains some form of color. Whether it is your clothes, the walls in your kitchen, the food that you eat, etc., it all consists of color. The world we live in has many varieties of each color, like the many accents there are for each language. But what is the significance of these colors? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, several colors are used to symbolically show deeper meaning. In his work of literature, Fitzgerald has Gatsby host a number of parties, in which mostly strangers attend, as a way to find his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. At one of those parties, his new neighbor, Nick Caraway,
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Just as yellow is included on the TJ Eckleburg sign, blue is as well. In such ways, blue may suggest a “certain idealism” (Schneider). It is stated that “In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went” (Fitzgerald 41). This may go to show that blue represents the feeling of being depressed, and unhappy. It shows that nobody stays in Gatsby’s life permanently. Because the author uses the color blue to discuss the gardens in Gatsby’s yard, negative connotation is used to set the mood for readers. Therefore, the blue represents that Gatsby’s house has been a sorrowful place for many years. The romantic blue is obviously associated with the “promise, the dream that Gatsby has mistaken for reality” (Schneider). Gatsby is so unhappy because he keeps dreaming that he can find a way to be with Daisy again, but his reach for this reality, is only such a fantasy. When the realization begins to hit him that he may never get back with her again, he becomes even more depressed. In other terms, blue stands for “peacefulness and serenity” (World Lit). Blue, along with white symbolizes “the ultimate bliss, the ideal perfection which Gatsby’s parties in the blue gardens seem to promise” (Schneider). Another time we see that blue symbolizes serenity is when “slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky” (Fitzgerald 118). When hearing this quote, the reader may think of peace and relaxation, which is what the color blue, is trying to
Just as yellow is included on the TJ Eckleburg sign, blue is as well. In such ways, blue may suggest a “certain idealism” (Schneider). It is stated that “In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went” (Fitzgerald 41). This may go to show that blue represents the feeling of being depressed, and unhappy. It shows that nobody stays in Gatsby’s life permanently. Because the author uses the color blue to discuss the gardens in Gatsby’s yard, negative connotation is used to set the mood for readers. Therefore, the blue represents that Gatsby’s house has been a sorrowful place for many years. The romantic blue is obviously associated with the “promise, the dream that Gatsby has mistaken for reality” (Schneider). Gatsby is so unhappy because he keeps dreaming that he can find a way to be with Daisy again, but his reach for this reality, is only such a fantasy. When the realization begins to hit him that he may never get back with her again, he becomes even more depressed. In other terms, blue stands for “peacefulness and serenity” (World Lit). Blue, along with white symbolizes “the ultimate bliss, the ideal perfection which Gatsby’s parties in the blue gardens seem to promise” (Schneider). Another time we see that blue symbolizes serenity is when “slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky” (Fitzgerald 118). When hearing this quote, the reader may think of peace and relaxation, which is what the color blue, is trying to