Great Gatsby Color Analysis:
Gatsby: Golden (yellow), Green, Blue, White
In the novel Fitzgerald relates multiple characters to many base colors, such as green, white, and yellow and black . Gatsby, however is my choice to write this essay over because I feel like he has the most interesting color relations. Golden, or yellow in the novel represents Gatsby's money and also cowardice in his attempts to win Daisy back while hiding from her for years. Although, it also represents death when his YELLOW car hits Mertle, also leading to his eventual death at the hands of her husband the ashen ghostly pale (white almost) Wilson. Gold makes up the majority of Gatsby, but green takes a close second. Gatsby originally buys his property because its …show more content…
Tom also displays enormous jealousy (also represented by green, although never stated) at the fact Daisy appears to love Gatsby more than himself threatening their idealistic outward appearance to everyone else. The bluegrass in front of Gatsby's mansion adds the hint of blue to this novel that subtly plays on Gatsby's slight depression at his loss of Daisy. When Gatsby sees Daisy for the first time again, it's raining. Gatsby is eventually murdered in his pool of blue water, leaving Nick to deal almost solely with the magnitude of his loss. White, however, is the most controversial and misunderstood color in this entire novel. White normally symbolizes innocence, purity, and truth, not in this novel. When Gatsby first sees Daisy again he is wearing silver, a mixture of white and grey, symbolizing once more in this book that light colors deal with being vain, or self centered. His choice of a silver suit was to display his money and his prowess to Daisy. His house is full of silver and white although displaying the “innocence” to the outside world, though the white seems to represent corruption throughout all of the novel and its characters. At Gatsby's funeral, the hallways are dark, and empty, alluding to black making the final play in the
Gatsby: Golden (yellow), Green, Blue, White
In the novel Fitzgerald relates multiple characters to many base colors, such as green, white, and yellow and black . Gatsby, however is my choice to write this essay over because I feel like he has the most interesting color relations. Golden, or yellow in the novel represents Gatsby's money and also cowardice in his attempts to win Daisy back while hiding from her for years. Although, it also represents death when his YELLOW car hits Mertle, also leading to his eventual death at the hands of her husband the ashen ghostly pale (white almost) Wilson. Gold makes up the majority of Gatsby, but green takes a close second. Gatsby originally buys his property because its …show more content…
Tom also displays enormous jealousy (also represented by green, although never stated) at the fact Daisy appears to love Gatsby more than himself threatening their idealistic outward appearance to everyone else. The bluegrass in front of Gatsby's mansion adds the hint of blue to this novel that subtly plays on Gatsby's slight depression at his loss of Daisy. When Gatsby sees Daisy for the first time again, it's raining. Gatsby is eventually murdered in his pool of blue water, leaving Nick to deal almost solely with the magnitude of his loss. White, however, is the most controversial and misunderstood color in this entire novel. White normally symbolizes innocence, purity, and truth, not in this novel. When Gatsby first sees Daisy again he is wearing silver, a mixture of white and grey, symbolizing once more in this book that light colors deal with being vain, or self centered. His choice of a silver suit was to display his money and his prowess to Daisy. His house is full of silver and white although displaying the “innocence” to the outside world, though the white seems to represent corruption throughout all of the novel and its characters. At Gatsby's funeral, the hallways are dark, and empty, alluding to black making the final play in the