The Color of Money

She is from the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx where the median income is a little less than $19,000. She also comes from a single parent home. I am from Hamilton Heights, a section in Harlem known for its middle class residents. For two years, we were both placed in a bridge class, the merger of two grades into one class. I later learned these classes saved Sisulu and Victory some money. My friend lost because Victory split her academic resources. Once my friend graduated, cost normalized and Victory abandoned the bridge class system. In order to save money Victory deprived her of a decent education, which led to a series of other bad academic choice because she was not prepared in her youngest stage. Charter schools must take blame for such their practices and Black communities need defenders against such actors. This defense should come in the form of Black politicians, but as you will read, this is not always the…

The Great Gatsby color symbolism plays a very important role in the book and how the reader interprets what is happening. For example the color green represents the life Gatsby wanted that was just in front of him while the color yellow represents the different social classes within the book with all the money they had or all the money they did not have. The color blue represents the lonely times Gatsby had at his gargantuan mansion that was located in West Egg. Then finally the color gray…

F.Scott Fitzgerald uses colors in The Great Gatsby such as Gold, Grey, and white. Grey represented the color of either emptiness or hopelessness. The color white represented the Innocence of someone and purity. The Great Gatsby has colors that uses how people feel or how they act. As the color gold represents old money or just rich for me. The color grey is used as a visual scene to foreshadow hopelessness. “Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a…

Colors in the world around us represent many different emotions,feelings, and aspects of our lives. They have more of an impact then just being something to look at. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, colors are used in this same fashion. In the novel, author Scott F. Fitzgerald uses color to symbolise a lot of deeper meanings as well as elements in the story. Colors are used in the novel by Scott F. Fitzgerald to represent a hierarchy in social status between West Egg and…

Colors have different meanings to different people. Some colors remind people of events that have happened, while others remind people of different seasons or places that they have been. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the author uses color symbolism in a creative and juxtaposed way that allows him to emphasize different themes. The main character, Jay Gatsby, wants to marry his long lost love, Daisy; however, she has married another man named Tom, who comes from “old money”.…

Color can influence our emotions, our actions, and how we respond to various people, things and ideas. Throughout literature, color symbolizes a variety of different things. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway tells us a tragic story of a helpless romantic, Jay Gatsby, desperately trying to get his long lost love back. Gatsby does everything in his power, such as becoming rich and throwing parties every weekend, just to get back Daisy Buchanan, a married woman who he is…

Colors help people understand the world around them. Colors can tell people how someone is feeling, if something is cheerful or gloomy and just an overall sense of mood. In F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, color symbolism plays an important role in the understanding of the characters. One color that plays a very important role in the novel would be the color green. Green is important in The Great Gatsby for many reasons. On reason would be Daisy’s green light at the end of her homes…

In literature, symbolism is used in order to execute an overall lesson or theme of any literary work. A symbol could be an object, an event, or even a person. But the one we see quite often is color. Color can symbolize emotions, people, events, or virtually anything you can imagine. In the novel “The Great Gatsby,” by F.Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is the wealthiest man living in the ‘new money’ West Egg. His neighbor is Nick Carraway and just across the bay is the green lighted dock of Nick’s…

Color Symbolism in Gatsby Throughout the course of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a plethora of symbols. Of all of the types of symbols presented throughout the course of the novel, colors are the most diverse. Nearly every color, whether it is used to describe a character’s clothing or the color of their car, has some form of symbolism that helps develop the characters as the plot progresses. The use of varying colors throughout The Great Gatsby reveals certain aspects of each…

by comparing colors to people. Every chapter in this book uses colors in connection to at least 1 of the characters. Fitzgerald also u ses the colors but never really specifies the name of the color. "When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow" (Fitzgerald, p. 166). The colors he uses are green for jealousy and blue for sadness, red for anger and etc. The color white stands for the innocence and fairness, yellow stands for corrupt and nasty, and gold stands for the…