F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby and filled it with all types of symbolism giving the book a deeper meaning. Throughout The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses colors such as, white, gray, green, blue, pink and gold; all having different meanings, letting the reader have a different view of the story. Symbolism occurs when the author uses an item to represent another thing and F. Scott Fitzgerald filled this book with it. In The Great Gatsby white represents the purity in something or someone. White represents the purity in class or the beauty in someone. The higher people in society always wear white or some shade of white. F Scott Fitzgerald used white to represent Daisy Buchanan, not only her personality but also her
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Scott Fitzgerald used the color gray to represent poverty. On their way to the New York Tom Buchanan and Nick Carraway stopped by the valley of which is described as gray. Nick Carraway described it as very poor and the people who work here are usually covered in gray. This came from their jobs such as mining and other jobs involving hard labor. In the book Nick Carraway said “We backed up a gray old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D. Rockefeller. In a basket swung from his neck cowered a dozen very recent puppies…” (Fitzgerald 27). This says that the grey man whom they ran into doesn’t have any value or in on other words, he belongs to the lower class. The color gray also represents the destruction of something and in this case it would be the destruction of society due to all the spending, drinking and partying happening during this era. “It symbolizes decadence, bleakness, corruption, and disillusionment and represents moral decay spiritual emptiness and death” (Haibing). Not only does the color gray represent poverty but it also symbolizes the poverty in people’s …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald uses the color red to represent death, violence or some type of wealth. This color shows up when Nick Carraway left Daisy’s house. “ … ‘in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light’ … Here red represents the blood of Myrtle Wilson who was murdered in front of the gas station” (Haibing). Once again red is shown to be a major symbol for violence as well as death. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows that the color red means violence but he also shows that the color can mean a type of luxury. “Red usually interpreted as luxury and rage for me in this novel symbolizes danger…” (Samkanashvili). This quote is evidence that the color red can also mean a type of luxury or wealth. Throughout the whole book it has been proven that not only is the color red a symbol for blood, violence and murder but it also mean wealth, luxury and
Scott Fitzgerald used the color gray to represent poverty. On their way to the New York Tom Buchanan and Nick Carraway stopped by the valley of which is described as gray. Nick Carraway described it as very poor and the people who work here are usually covered in gray. This came from their jobs such as mining and other jobs involving hard labor. In the book Nick Carraway said “We backed up a gray old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D. Rockefeller. In a basket swung from his neck cowered a dozen very recent puppies…” (Fitzgerald 27). This says that the grey man whom they ran into doesn’t have any value or in on other words, he belongs to the lower class. The color gray also represents the destruction of something and in this case it would be the destruction of society due to all the spending, drinking and partying happening during this era. “It symbolizes decadence, bleakness, corruption, and disillusionment and represents moral decay spiritual emptiness and death” (Haibing). Not only does the color gray represent poverty but it also symbolizes the poverty in people’s …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald uses the color red to represent death, violence or some type of wealth. This color shows up when Nick Carraway left Daisy’s house. “ … ‘in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light’ … Here red represents the blood of Myrtle Wilson who was murdered in front of the gas station” (Haibing). Once again red is shown to be a major symbol for violence as well as death. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows that the color red means violence but he also shows that the color can mean a type of luxury. “Red usually interpreted as luxury and rage for me in this novel symbolizes danger…” (Samkanashvili). This quote is evidence that the color red can also mean a type of luxury or wealth. Throughout the whole book it has been proven that not only is the color red a symbol for blood, violence and murder but it also mean wealth, luxury and