The Color of Money

Colors are an essential part of the world we live in. Colors can convey messages, expressing what words cannot. Underlying symbols appear in many works of literature and lead the reader to discover a message of the character. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald uses color as a major literary device in themes and character development. Fitzgerald uses tones and clues to help the reader in certain situations. Throughout the novel characters, places, and objects are given “life” by…

Color is all around you. It makes up everything that you encounter in your life. You use color to describe who you are and what you like. Whether you are wearing a specific color of clothing, or being drawn to an advertisement that has a color you like color is around you every day. The question is what is behind these colors, and what do they mean to you and the world around us. People use colors to symbolize different aspects of their life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, an…

moment you go to bed, your life is filled with colors. Everywhere you look there is an object that contains some form of color. Whether it is your clothes, the walls in your kitchen, the food that you eat, etc., it all consists of color. The world we live in has many varieties of each color, like the many accents there are for each language. But what is the significance of these colors? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, several colors are used to symbolically show deeper meaning.…

Colors are known to symbolize certain feelings or moods. In the novel The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses specific colors to represent characters and feelings in many ways. On the Long Island Sound in the 1920’s, people are separated into three social classes, old money, new money, and the poor working class. West Egg is a lot less fashionable coming from new money; Nick Carraway and Mr. Jay Gatsby live in West Egg. East Egg has people who can trace their family wealth back…

Colors play an important role in literature and everyday life as the way to represent certain characteristics. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Myrtle lives are surrounded by colors that are full of meaning. The novel is based upon the period in history called “the Roaring Twenties”. At this time, World War I was over and an entire generation was viciously destroyed. It was a scary time for everyone around the age of eighteen, so…

part of old money and relive the past with his love, Daisy Buchanan. Along the way we learn about the lives of the “old money” characters such as Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker and the poor unfortunate characters such as Myrtle and George Wilson. Nick Carraway, the narrator, watches as corruption between many of the characters goes on. In The…

is famous for its use of symbols through color. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scotts Fitzgerald is a story of the illusions that success portrays. Based within the decade of the “Roaring Twenties”, it illustrates the decline of the American Dream. Color symbolism plays an essential role within the novel. The color white is used many times within the story; more specifically we tend to see examples of the color white in the beginning of the book. The color white is typically used in literature…

throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Themes like, love, betrayal, new money and old money, upper and lower class, and even colors are very important characteristics of this novel. Love is a very important thing in life and Gatsby has been in love with the same girl for many years. In the 1920’s you love the people with old money and do not have respect for the people with new money. It is very clear if you are a part of the upper class or if you are with the lower class.…

HE GREAT GATSBY, AN ANALYSIS ON THE SYMBOLISM IN COLOR Rough copy Nick Carraway’s first glimpse of Jay Gatsby is of him seeming to reach out across the way towards a mysterious green light. The moment invites the reader to look for symbolic meaning. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is very rich in symbols particularly in the use of different colors. Throughout the novel different colors are used symbolically to help reinforce certain ideas, both real and illusory, whether it be Gatsby’s…

(particularly his love for Daisy Buchanon) and money (which is what he plans on using to win Daisy’s heart) (Kersh 1). Fitzgerald uses the color green as a symbol for love and money as well as Gatsby’s ultimate goal—a reawakening that will erase his past and create a future for his relationship with Daisy. Fitzgerald associates green with life and growth (Colour 47), the life of Jay Gatsby and the growth of a love affair with his beloved Daisy Buchanon. The color green is first introduced in…