Color Great Gatsby
It was once said by the great abstract artist Pablo Picasso that colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. That is exactly what F Scott Fitzgerald shows and does in his popular novel The Great Gatsby. Readers follow the journey of Nick Caraway, a new comer to New York City, where he learns of the rags and riches of the 1920’s. Scott sprinkles symbolism throughout the book to get his readers thinking. He particularly likes using colors to fulfill this deed. Fitzgerald uses the colors white, green, and yellow to symbolize feelings and to describe people throughout the novel. Firstly, Scott uses the color white to portray purity and innocence. Immediately, in the first chapter, this color is associated with Daisy, the most
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This has a sense of hope that Gatsby always seems to be reaching for. For example, he stands on the edge of the dock, yearning and reaching out to the green light on Daisy’s dock. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” (98) Gatsby always notices the dock. Even in the beginning of the book he keeps going on and reaching for it. Gatsby is reaching out for the answer for his dream. His dream is Daisy, and everyone seems to have a Daisy. Everyone has their own American dream. Gatsby and the world share one thing: their green light dream. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (189) This dream and this hope everyone is looking for is like this green light. The farther you reach the more you want and strive for it. Green is both a dream and a curse in the sense that Gatsby never really reaches his dream in the end. His arms reaching for the dock, his finger merely graze the shell of the light when his dream ends. America and its dreams are the same way: ever stretching out into a sea of
This has a sense of hope that Gatsby always seems to be reaching for. For example, he stands on the edge of the dock, yearning and reaching out to the green light on Daisy’s dock. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” (98) Gatsby always notices the dock. Even in the beginning of the book he keeps going on and reaching for it. Gatsby is reaching out for the answer for his dream. His dream is Daisy, and everyone seems to have a Daisy. Everyone has their own American dream. Gatsby and the world share one thing: their green light dream. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (189) This dream and this hope everyone is looking for is like this green light. The farther you reach the more you want and strive for it. Green is both a dream and a curse in the sense that Gatsby never really reaches his dream in the end. His arms reaching for the dock, his finger merely graze the shell of the light when his dream ends. America and its dreams are the same way: ever stretching out into a sea of