Colors can symbolize many things. In a book an author can take color and give it their own symbol. F. Scott Fitzgerald does a beautiful job of this in his book The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald brings the use of colors into the plot of this book. He gives each color an underlying meaning. The colors represent the dream and the reality of the book.
             The main two colors that are symbolized in The Great Gatsby are green and white. These two colors influence the book greatly. There are also many other colors mentioned in the book that have very defined meanings such as red, blue, and yellow. With all these colors come many thoughts and emotions of the characters and what is going on with them.
             The green color shows many thoughts, ideas, attitudes, and choices Gatsby makes throughout the book. A key image in the book is the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock, "Involuntarily I glanced seaward-and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock."p.26. this green light for Gatsby was the symbol of a dream of Daisy. The color represents serenity, as in perfection, which is ironic for when Gatsby reaches the light everything becomes reality and the perfection of his dream is lost. In another way green can represents direction as a green traffic light, which means to go. To Gatsby to go for his dream and be reunited with his long lost love. For his dream is to bring back the past and make everything as it once was, ""I'm going to fix everything just the way they were before," he said nodding determinedly. "She'll see.""p.117.
             Green also takes a different meaning in The Great Gatsby as being an urge to strive ahead in life, to do better in life and succeed. Gatsby changes his entire life for a better, more sociable, image and status. He is constantly stri
             ...