The Color of Money

Life is equivalent to a box of crayons. Colors of all shades cover our world with hidden meanings. Just as a mood ring changes color by how we feel, life can significantly change by the presence of a wide array of colors. Oscar Wilde, one individual who clearly perceives color in a unique way once stated, “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” Whether it goes unnoticed or not, countless notions of life can be…

symbol that was significant were the colors. The colors consist of: green, yellow, white and blue. These colors in the story showed lots of imagery. Additionally, using these colors there was one symbol that was primarily used, and it was called The Green light. The green light was presented to be the American Dream. Fitzgerald used these symbols to show the reader to understand the life in the roaring 20s. To start off with the story, the cities…

“Money cannot buy happiness” is a common aphorism that is used quite often in everyday lives. Materialism confoundedly corrupts people's lives and dreams, which most certainly applies to the period of time leading up to the Great Depression in the early 1920’s. The reckless pursuit of greed and pleasure often leads to decadent parties- epitomized in The Great Gatsby by the grand parties that Gatsby throws every Saturday night- resulting in the corruption of the American Dream, as the desire for…

place in the 1920s in New York City. In the tragedy there are several colors that are symbolic towards the story. The main colors include grey, white, yellow, and green. Grey symbolizes sadness and the lack of confidence. White symbolizes innocent, purity, and a new beginning. Yellow is one of the main colors associated with Gatsby as it symbolizes money and power. Lastly, Green symbolizes growth and freshness. The many colors of The Great Gatsby symbolize all sorts of things but they all…

Colwell/Thomas The Great Gatsby In The Great Gatsby, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald embeds many essential symbols in this novel. The three most important symbols that are continuously repeated in this novel are Gatsby’s car, the green light, the color white, and T.J Eckleburg’s eyes that haunt over the valley of ashes. These three things will be dissected and interpreted for the reader to help further tie themselves to Fitzgerald's novel. In the American dream that was so…

Many people love to travel, eat food and maybe draw. Well what if you were to travel all around the world, eating tons of food and drawing them as your job? Everything is already paid for, you know because it's really expensive and nobody has money for that, like me. As I travel around the world, trying new foods, I’m also drawing them. When I finish with my masterpiece it suddenly pops out from the canvas and turns into real life food. Most of the times I give the extra food to others in need,…

Colors are often associated with objects seen in everyday life. Examples of this are yellow bananas, white clouds, and the famous green Statue of Liberty. However everything is not what it appears to be. For example bananas aren’t always yellow, they could also be green or even brown. Clouds can often be grey, and even Lady Liberty herself wasn’t always green she originally was made of shining copper. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional book, The Great Gatsby this idea that color can mean many…

once proclaimed, “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotion.” Pablo Picasso, a painter who used colors in his works to convey emotions, explains to us that colors can often be used to reflect different emotions. Artists, authors, painters, graphic designers, and many more people like Picasso have used the technique of color symbolism to portray different points, emotions, or symbols that they wish to express to their viewers. One author in particular that used color symbolism was F.…

and bystanders of such actions are all guilty of injustice because of the money they are benefiting from the act. The examples above tie in with “The Pardoner's Tale” because of the desire for selfish personal gains, benefits, and money. America, the great land of the free, is a victim of mass incarceration and inequality but that topic is brushed off because the people it affects are, minorities. Every day people of color are targeted by the police enforcement due to police quotas.…

Color has many different meanings in our everyday lives, from a simple go at a green traffic light to stop and pull over to a flashing blue light. Everywhere you look you see simple colors that mean different things. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway is bombarded with colorful people and their very colorful array of possessions and places as he adapts to the New York way of life in the 1920’s. Nick meets a man named Gatsby and helps him get the girl of his dreams…