Garden Symbolism In The Great Gatsby

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In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He uses many color to describe and represent the book character feelings, buildings, references and more within the story. One of the most F. Scott Fitzgerald uses within the book is blue and green to represent the main character Mr. Jay Gatsby Personality, fantasy, what he love and dream. One of the most use color is blue. Blue symbolizes melancholy, loneliness, tranquility and fantasy. In the novel, Gatsby garden describe as blue for example blue garden and blue livery in chapter 3, “the blue leaves” mentioned in chapter 8, “blue lawn” in chapter 9. The blue tone of Gatsby’s garden reveals Gatsby’s loneliness and sorrow in his inner heart. Mr. Gatsby throw all this party so one day daisy

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