Ms.Morris
Junior English- 1st period
6 December 2017
The Colors in The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a fictional story told by the character Nick who lived in West Egg where he met a man that lives next door named Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby has all the money he needed, but the only thing he always wanted is a girl named Daisy that is married to Tom Buchanan. There are three colors symbolize The Great Gatsby. The color symbolism in The Great Gatsby is represented by the colors gold, red, and green.
The color symbolism gold, red, and green was chosen because gold is for wealth, red is for romance or violence, and green represent the color of the light from the end of Daisy’s dock.
Gold was chosen to represent wealth. It’s shiny