Colors are often associated with objects seen in everyday life. Examples of this are yellow bananas, white clouds, and the famous green Statue of Liberty. However everything is not what it appears to be. For example bananas aren’t always yellow, they could also be green or even brown. Clouds can often be grey, and even Lady Liberty herself wasn’t always green she originally was made of shining copper. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional book, The Great Gatsby this idea that color can mean many different things is frequently applied. The book itself describes a man named Nick Carraway’s experience in New York. Where he comes across a man named Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is madly in love with a married woman named Daisy Buchanan, who Gatsby went every
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It represents, “fairness and innocence” (Jacob 1).White also means that the subject of the sentence is, “morally unblemished, and honorable” (Jacob 1). The characteristic of innocence and being morally perfect can apply to many characters in the story. It can apply to the main character Nick, because he arrives in the New York morally unblemished and returned west with his innocence violated. It can also apply to Gatsby’s lover Daisy Buchanan. An example of this would be when Nick first visits his cousin’s home and saw Jordan and Daisy. Nick would then state that "They were both in white” (Fitzgerald 13). Another example of how the color white applies to Mrs. Buchanan is when Gatsby was giving her a tour when she went to kiss him, “"His heart beat faster as Daisy 's white face came up to his own" (Fitzgerald 107). However Daisy is not one hundred percent innocent. “Experts who have studied the novel in depth often use the example of an egg (which is white on the outside but yellow inside to show Daisy) to explain this character. She seems pure and innocent outside but inside she is yellow and corrupt” (Jacob 1). The color white is also used to describe Daisy’s best friend Jordan Baker. For example when discussing their childhoods Daisy said, "Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white" (Fitzgerald 24). This illustrated that both Daisy and Jordan where innocent and fair from …show more content…
Unfortunately the ending isn’t a happy one. After discovering the Daisy and Gatsby where having an affair behind his back, Tom confronted Gatsby not only about the affair, but also his fraudulent past. In an act of pure emotion Gatsby lashed out at Tom, stopping only before he strikes him. This in turn ruins all chances he had with getting back together with Daisy and marrying her. While driving home Daisy ran over Myrtle Wilson. Her husband George who had already gone psychotic, began to accuse Tom of killing his wife. Tom, convinced that Gatsby was driving the car, told George where Gatsby lived. The next day Gatsby was shot directly in the heart by George Wilson, killing him instantly. George then turn the gun on himself and took his own life. Nick and Gatsby’s father are the only people who attended Gatsby’s funeral services. After the services, and failing at his goal to become rich in the East, Nick moves back to the West. Tom and Daisy go away to an unknown location, and after being dumped by Nick, Jordan remained in the New York area. Much of the events in The Great Gatsby relied on the use of color symbolism to add an additional layer of depth to it and to help get Fitzgerald’s messages across to the reader. From the use of green to symbolize the conflict and hope, to the use of grey to describe an entire social class and their livelihoods, color symbolism is used in
It represents, “fairness and innocence” (Jacob 1).White also means that the subject of the sentence is, “morally unblemished, and honorable” (Jacob 1). The characteristic of innocence and being morally perfect can apply to many characters in the story. It can apply to the main character Nick, because he arrives in the New York morally unblemished and returned west with his innocence violated. It can also apply to Gatsby’s lover Daisy Buchanan. An example of this would be when Nick first visits his cousin’s home and saw Jordan and Daisy. Nick would then state that "They were both in white” (Fitzgerald 13). Another example of how the color white applies to Mrs. Buchanan is when Gatsby was giving her a tour when she went to kiss him, “"His heart beat faster as Daisy 's white face came up to his own" (Fitzgerald 107). However Daisy is not one hundred percent innocent. “Experts who have studied the novel in depth often use the example of an egg (which is white on the outside but yellow inside to show Daisy) to explain this character. She seems pure and innocent outside but inside she is yellow and corrupt” (Jacob 1). The color white is also used to describe Daisy’s best friend Jordan Baker. For example when discussing their childhoods Daisy said, "Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white" (Fitzgerald 24). This illustrated that both Daisy and Jordan where innocent and fair from …show more content…
Unfortunately the ending isn’t a happy one. After discovering the Daisy and Gatsby where having an affair behind his back, Tom confronted Gatsby not only about the affair, but also his fraudulent past. In an act of pure emotion Gatsby lashed out at Tom, stopping only before he strikes him. This in turn ruins all chances he had with getting back together with Daisy and marrying her. While driving home Daisy ran over Myrtle Wilson. Her husband George who had already gone psychotic, began to accuse Tom of killing his wife. Tom, convinced that Gatsby was driving the car, told George where Gatsby lived. The next day Gatsby was shot directly in the heart by George Wilson, killing him instantly. George then turn the gun on himself and took his own life. Nick and Gatsby’s father are the only people who attended Gatsby’s funeral services. After the services, and failing at his goal to become rich in the East, Nick moves back to the West. Tom and Daisy go away to an unknown location, and after being dumped by Nick, Jordan remained in the New York area. Much of the events in The Great Gatsby relied on the use of color symbolism to add an additional layer of depth to it and to help get Fitzgerald’s messages across to the reader. From the use of green to symbolize the conflict and hope, to the use of grey to describe an entire social class and their livelihoods, color symbolism is used in