The Symbolism of Colors in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby
Each color has a language of it’s own and you easily learn the language by understanding the simple concept that each meaning of color can vary depending on the culture and circumstances. Colors play a very important role in our lives whether we realize it or not, because they have the ability to affect our emotions and moods in a way that few other things can. Black hides while white brings to light because what black covers white uncovers. This color relates to the hidden, the secretive and the unknown and as result it creates an air of mystery. “About five o’clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick dizzle beside the gate-first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr.Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and a little later four or five servants and the postman from West Egg, in Gatsby’s station wagon, all wet to the skin” (174). In the story of The Great Gatsby I chose the color black to represent how melancholica the day of Gatsby’s funeral was. In society when people think of the color black, then usually begin to think of horror films of funerals. …show more content…
“Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with the polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan charming, discontented face” (11). This quote shows how Mrs.Baker was so upset because the life she lived at home. When people think of the color gray they often think of the sky on a dreary day and how its brings down their mood when the wake up expecting a sky full of shining light and a beautiful baby blue sky with no puff of clouds anywhere to be
Each color has a language of it’s own and you easily learn the language by understanding the simple concept that each meaning of color can vary depending on the culture and circumstances. Colors play a very important role in our lives whether we realize it or not, because they have the ability to affect our emotions and moods in a way that few other things can. Black hides while white brings to light because what black covers white uncovers. This color relates to the hidden, the secretive and the unknown and as result it creates an air of mystery. “About five o’clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick dizzle beside the gate-first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr.Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and a little later four or five servants and the postman from West Egg, in Gatsby’s station wagon, all wet to the skin” (174). In the story of The Great Gatsby I chose the color black to represent how melancholica the day of Gatsby’s funeral was. In society when people think of the color black, then usually begin to think of horror films of funerals. …show more content…
“Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with the polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan charming, discontented face” (11). This quote shows how Mrs.Baker was so upset because the life she lived at home. When people think of the color gray they often think of the sky on a dreary day and how its brings down their mood when the wake up expecting a sky full of shining light and a beautiful baby blue sky with no puff of clouds anywhere to be