“Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions” (Pablo Picasso). Almost all writers use colors to form real images of their characters, the characters’ emotions, the scenes, and the events in the novel. Colors play a very important role when writers mention them in their novels. Readers can read a novel and see how colors can describe the characters and their emotions. A certain book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a very good example of a book that has color symbolism. There are colors that symbolize and mean certain things, such as the colors white and yellow that symbolize Daisy and Jay Gatsby. The color white plays a major role in the novel and means beauty, honesty, wealth, innocence, and purity. The narrator, Nick
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He tries to seem to Daisy as a flashy and honest man. Gatsby comes to Nick’s house where he is going to see Daisy again and he is dressed “in a while flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie” (Fitzgerald 84). Here there are a number of colors that can mean something about Gatsby. Gatsby is a rich man and in the book a few times the color gold is used to explain his wealth such as his turkeys that are “bewitched to a dark gold” (Fitzgerald 40). Gatsby’s love for Daisy is pure and true, but Gatsby as a person is not really pure and true. The color gold means wealthy, pure, and impressing, but the color yellow is a fake gold. Although yellow is happy and joyful, at the same time it is fake and deceiving. Gatsby has many secrets that people do not know about him, and the ways he achieved his wealth is through a fake and deceiving way. Gatsby’s car is described as “a nice yellow one” (Fitzgerald 123). Although Gatsby’s car was nice and yellow, it is the car that killed Myrtle. There is a lot of deceiving that causes Myrtle’s death. When Myrtle sees Gatsby’s car, she thinks it is Tom’s because he is riding it, and when she runs out in the middle of the road thinking Tom in “his” yellow car can help her, she is hit by Daisy who is accompanied by …show more content…
J. Eckleburg and the twins who wear yellow dresses. The twins are flashy girls that try to be golden like Jordan, but they are not and cannot be like her because they are not on Jordan’s level. Moving on to the spectacles of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, Nick explains that the eyes are “blue and gigantic……..from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles” (Fitzgerald 23). As if he is God, Doctor T.J. Eckleburg looks through the yellow spectacles that are like lenses that allow him to see the corruption of the characters in the
He tries to seem to Daisy as a flashy and honest man. Gatsby comes to Nick’s house where he is going to see Daisy again and he is dressed “in a while flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie” (Fitzgerald 84). Here there are a number of colors that can mean something about Gatsby. Gatsby is a rich man and in the book a few times the color gold is used to explain his wealth such as his turkeys that are “bewitched to a dark gold” (Fitzgerald 40). Gatsby’s love for Daisy is pure and true, but Gatsby as a person is not really pure and true. The color gold means wealthy, pure, and impressing, but the color yellow is a fake gold. Although yellow is happy and joyful, at the same time it is fake and deceiving. Gatsby has many secrets that people do not know about him, and the ways he achieved his wealth is through a fake and deceiving way. Gatsby’s car is described as “a nice yellow one” (Fitzgerald 123). Although Gatsby’s car was nice and yellow, it is the car that killed Myrtle. There is a lot of deceiving that causes Myrtle’s death. When Myrtle sees Gatsby’s car, she thinks it is Tom’s because he is riding it, and when she runs out in the middle of the road thinking Tom in “his” yellow car can help her, she is hit by Daisy who is accompanied by …show more content…
J. Eckleburg and the twins who wear yellow dresses. The twins are flashy girls that try to be golden like Jordan, but they are not and cannot be like her because they are not on Jordan’s level. Moving on to the spectacles of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, Nick explains that the eyes are “blue and gigantic……..from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles” (Fitzgerald 23). As if he is God, Doctor T.J. Eckleburg looks through the yellow spectacles that are like lenses that allow him to see the corruption of the characters in the