Essay On The Color White In The Great Gatsby
How Fitzgerald’s use of colors assists the reader with understanding the underline meaning of the storyline within The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as one of the most renowned writers of the 20th century and in world literature: because of his significant public fascination of his lifestyle. He is understood as a passionate novelist, yet combines these qualities with realism. Fitzgerald expresses life and its problems, trying to give a complete portrait of modern life, yet giving the entire world picture. He does not just try to give only one view of life, but instead tried to show the different manners of classes, and stratification of life. He uses America’s universal truths and witnessed facts of life, to create accurate components …show more content…
Such as “His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps, and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home, three months before. The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption – and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good bye”. Nick establishes that wealth and humbleness means absolutely nothing in terms of personality, although Nick is still conscious of how significant class is to personal identity, specifically in high class society. He recognizes that he was born into a life of higher opportunity, due to his significant amount of wealth. The color white shows many strong examples of strong integrity, in connection with Nick. To demonstrates, “I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more. On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone. Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand” (Fitzgerald 192). Nick’s sympathy spreads to the house that stood for everything he hated about Gatsby, yet tries to keep it neat, since the house meant greatly to
F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as one of the most renowned writers of the 20th century and in world literature: because of his significant public fascination of his lifestyle. He is understood as a passionate novelist, yet combines these qualities with realism. Fitzgerald expresses life and its problems, trying to give a complete portrait of modern life, yet giving the entire world picture. He does not just try to give only one view of life, but instead tried to show the different manners of classes, and stratification of life. He uses America’s universal truths and witnessed facts of life, to create accurate components …show more content…
Such as “His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps, and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home, three months before. The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption – and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good bye”. Nick establishes that wealth and humbleness means absolutely nothing in terms of personality, although Nick is still conscious of how significant class is to personal identity, specifically in high class society. He recognizes that he was born into a life of higher opportunity, due to his significant amount of wealth. The color white shows many strong examples of strong integrity, in connection with Nick. To demonstrates, “I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more. On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone. Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand” (Fitzgerald 192). Nick’s sympathy spreads to the house that stood for everything he hated about Gatsby, yet tries to keep it neat, since the house meant greatly to