The Great Gatsby Mood Analysis

Beneath every great sentence is a great second-meaning. Whether an author is blatantly trying to tell the reader something, or they want to subconsciously set the tone of their literary work, in a sentence symbolism can normally be found. A sentence, however, is very small. There is often underlying symbolism and tone in entire works of literature, made obvious by a sentence or two. F. Scott Fitzgerald mastered the art of symbolizing emotion and status in literature in The Great Gatsby. Through his use of symbolism, Fitzgerald illustrates the emotions and mystery of the 1920s. In great works of fiction, whether it be film or literature, the person consuming it is normally cued in about how they should feel based on the environment in the story. Environment can be the weather, the mood, or even just the time of year. In The Great Gatsby, most scenes are filled with hints of pathetic fallacy and blatant description of emotion based on weather and nature. There are things such as hope, anger, tension, and new life all portrayed in the story by weather and nature. The beginning of the novel is full of new life and hope in the eyes of Nick Carraway, based on …show more content…
When one thinks of white, one imagines innocence. This idea of color symbolism was not lost on F. Scott Fitzgerald as he wrote The Great Gatsby. In the beginning of the novel, when we are introduced to Daisy, we meet her false innocence manifested in the color white. "The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just blown back in after a short flight around the house." (Fitzgerald 8). At this point in the novel, Daisy 's innocence seems to be true, but it is revealed later that it is a false image, especially when she is described as the "golden