In the novel, "The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are several colors used for symbolism. The colors represent the admixture of dream and reality. Colors that appear continuously throughout the novel are green, blue, white and yellow. Each color helps the reader learn more about the characters. Fitzgerald uses colors so that our imagination can on a symbolic level know the outcome of the novel but not want to believe it until the end. This is how Fitzgerald keeps his readers involved with the narrative.
             The first time we see color symbolism is when Nick Carraway, the narrator, tells us about East-and West Egg. An egg is white on the outside but yellow on the inside. The white represents the purity and innocence in East- and West Egg. People know that the people who live in East Egg are from money and people who just made their money reside in West Egg. They don't know that if you look closer all are corrupt in some way that is symbolized by the inside of an egg, yellow. We learn from this that if we look closer at Gatsby he has done illegal things to get his money. Tom and Daisy Buchanan seem to live a fairytale life but the fairytale contains adultery and violence. The yellow also represents the wealth and money these people possess.
             When Nick meets his cousin Daisy Buchanan at Tom's and Daisy's home, she was dressed totally in white. The house and its Furnishings are also decorated in light shades. "The wind blew up the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling- and then rippled over the wine-colored rug"(12). These light colored furnishings can be interpreted as: beauty, cleanliness, wealth, innocence, virginity and laziness. Daisy's color is white, she wears white dresses, recalls her "white girlhood" (24) and use to drive a white roadster. She is beautiful, rich, innocent and pure or at least on the surface in her whiteness. But that whiteness, is m...