Color SYmbolism
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 a
She is beautiful, rich, innocent and pure or at least on the surface in her whiteness. Blue also represents fantasy and is a symbol of a different world. As Wilson says, "God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock"(98). It represents a lost time, a pure color that is overly displayed, a pure color in the valley of ashes. The initial appearance of the green light, one of the novels central symbols, occurs when Carraway sees Gatsby for the first time, standing in front of his mansion and stretching out his hands to "a single green light, minute and far away that might have been the end of a dock" (26). Modern Critical Interpretetions: The Great Gatsby. These light colored furnishings can be interpreted as: beauty, cleanliness, wealth, innocence, virginity and laziness. The illusions people have of one another. When Nick meets his cousin Daisy Buchanan at Tom's and Daisy's home, she was dressed totally in white. Fitzgerald's use of color represents dreams and illusions. Nick realizes that she is "The king's daughter, the golden girl"(127) and she carries a "little gold pencil"(112).
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