The Great Gatsby Cover Analysis

The book covers for The Great Gatsby are constantly changing. The covers give readers different interpretations of the book. The covers are being made all over the world. The covers in one country may give a reader a different interpretation in another country. Although the book has the same content, the covers make the audience think of different things. The elements in the covers give the audiences different things to think about while reading the book. Some covers false advertise things that are in the book.
The 1993 cover, designed for Wordsworth Classics, has a female with flowers on it. In the story, Gatsby loves a woman named Daisy. The female on the cover represents Daisy. The female is well dressed, so she looks to be a wealthy woman. She …show more content…
The symbol is in the middle of the cover. The dollar sign grasps the readers’ attention because people like money. In the book, there are two wealthy neighborhoods. The cover shows that everyone in the book has a lot of money. However, the cover still does not show anything about love. The cover makes it seem like everyone in the book is working hard to get a money. The focus of the book is love of a woman, not the love of money. The cover also has a road on the far left side. The road represents the car that has a lot to do with the plot of the book. However, that element of the cover does not go with the rest of the cover. The road is straight and is a very light color. The background of the cover is yellow. The yellow has something to do with Daisy. The inside of a daisy is yellow. The illustrator incorporated that element into the cover to display a little about Daisy, the woman Gatsby loves. The words are in a neat position. The words “the great” are lower case and inside the dollar sign. The word “Gatsby” is on the outside and the letters are in their own little boxes. The words on the cover grasps the readers’ attention because the words are all over the