Yellow Symbolism In The Great Gatsby

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5.1 Yellow is the color of gold and stands for wealth
Yellow is the color of gold not only stands for money, status and power, but also greed, lust and fall. In the novel, Fitzgerald used yellow to represent mammonish and decadent life of the American upper class. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy was known as “golden girls”, Jordan had yellow hair like withered leaves and Gatsby tied golden tie.
To win Daisy, Gatsby always shows off his wealth. He held various parties in his villa frequently. And everything in the party is yellow, such as champagne, oranges, lemons, pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. Even orchestra was playing yellow cocktail music. Gatsby tried every shift about money available to touch Daisy who is a emphasizing

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