The Color Gray In The Great Gatsby

Colors are all around us. Every living and nonliving thing on Earth has a color. Books,clothes,shoes,etc. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the colors gray,blue, and brown to symbolize characters and things in the novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the color gray to visually show the dullness and poverty of the land. “But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it.” It represents the hopelessness of the town even though at it’s sides are East Egg and West Egg which are wealthy. Myrtle died there. The color gray is commonly associated with loneliness and hopelessness. The author uses the color blue to describe Wilson’s eyes. “When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.” The color blue represents George Wilson’s eyes and the gleam of hope in them. The color blue is associated with light and the sea. Also trust and loyalty. …show more content…
“She had changed her dress to a brown figured muslin, which stretched tight over her rather wide hips as Tom helped her to the platform in New York.” The color brown represents the clothes that Daisy was wearing when they were at New York. Brown is associated with dirtiness,dirt but also healing and elegance. Colors can mean and represent many different things but in the novel The Great Gatsby it symbolizes feelings of the characters and their