Is the American Dream Ever Satisfied? What does the colors gold and yellow represent to you? After reading The Great Gatsby, it seems that the colors gold and yellow are prevalent throughout. Gold is a strong representation to wealth, which is the basis of the American Dream. Then there is yellow, this color represents fakeness, which is the complete opposite of living the American Dream. The novel takes place in the roaring ‘20s at New York. The main character Nick tells a story about Gatsby, who is a mystery as well as filthy rich. As the novel progresses we learn that the characters are not as perfect as we viewed them to be. They each have a sense of deceitfulness in different ways. In The Great Gatsby written by Scott Fitzgerald, the
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First things first, Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce is yellow. This is a dominant proof of his fakeness. To prove yellow is an image of corruption, in the novel, Gatsby is explaining his life story to Nick on their way to NY which we later come to find is false. The first thing Gatsby chooses to tell Nick about is his education, “‘I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West — all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition’” (Fitzgerald 69). Here we believe that he is a man who was born into wealth who became very smart and continued to make money of his own. In reality though later in the novel we find this to be false in chapter 6 when Nick admits “It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants” (104). Here you find out everything Gatsby told you in his yellow car was a lie, and if you continue on to find out all of this is done out of desperation for Daisy’s love. Fitzgerald adds this symbol to the book to really prove that Gatsby is not living the perfect life or has the American Dream. It has come to the conclusion then similarly to all the other characters mentioned, he falls short of the American
First things first, Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce is yellow. This is a dominant proof of his fakeness. To prove yellow is an image of corruption, in the novel, Gatsby is explaining his life story to Nick on their way to NY which we later come to find is false. The first thing Gatsby chooses to tell Nick about is his education, “‘I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West — all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition’” (Fitzgerald 69). Here we believe that he is a man who was born into wealth who became very smart and continued to make money of his own. In reality though later in the novel we find this to be false in chapter 6 when Nick admits “It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants” (104). Here you find out everything Gatsby told you in his yellow car was a lie, and if you continue on to find out all of this is done out of desperation for Daisy’s love. Fitzgerald adds this symbol to the book to really prove that Gatsby is not living the perfect life or has the American Dream. It has come to the conclusion then similarly to all the other characters mentioned, he falls short of the American