Often in works of literature authors use color symbolism to give readers a better vision into the character’s lives. Nick Carraway, the narrator, is pushed into the scandalous lives of his neighbors. Living next to him, extremely wealthy Jay Gatsby is secretly in love with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy lives just across the bay with her husband Tom who has an affair with a poor woman named Myrtle. Myrtle lives in the Valley of Ashes with her husband George Wilson. Throughout the story we come to realize that Daisy eventually falls for Gatsby. Nick becomes close with Daisy’s best friend, Jordan Baker who is known for her talent at golf. Clearly, Many complicated relationships and situations are introduced during the plot. In F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, color symbolism plays an essential role throughout the story.
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Poverty is a big issue in this place and many of the people who live here work all their lives. The valley of ashes is between the East and West Eggs and New York City. It is described as “a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills… where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke..”(Fitzgerald 23). Fitzgerald often describes the valley of ashes using gray. Gray is used in the novel to describe this land and the separation of classes. Jennifer Brozak believes “the most notable use of gray relates to the Valley of Ashes, which symbolizes the poverty and hopelessness of the lower class” (Brozak 1). It is also expressed how the gray land of the valley of ashes lays below the upper class and its wealthy society. Schneider states “-the sordid reality lying beneath the fictions of the American dream of limitless opportunity and achievement” (Schneider 1). The Valley of Ashes, which is associated with the color gray, symbolizes poor and poverty below the high class American
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Poverty is a big issue in this place and many of the people who live here work all their lives. The valley of ashes is between the East and West Eggs and New York City. It is described as “a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills… where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke..”(Fitzgerald 23). Fitzgerald often describes the valley of ashes using gray. Gray is used in the novel to describe this land and the separation of classes. Jennifer Brozak believes “the most notable use of gray relates to the Valley of Ashes, which symbolizes the poverty and hopelessness of the lower class” (Brozak 1). It is also expressed how the gray land of the valley of ashes lays below the upper class and its wealthy society. Schneider states “-the sordid reality lying beneath the fictions of the American dream of limitless opportunity and achievement” (Schneider 1). The Valley of Ashes, which is associated with the color gray, symbolizes poor and poverty below the high class American