The Great Gatsby Color

Chasing your dreams
Is there a deeper meaning to colors being used in novels? When someone hears the color blue or green they often times think of it meaning or signifying envy or sadness but that is not always the case. In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are many different colors used that signify much deeper things than just using the color to describe something. Fitzgerald’s emphasis on the green light throughout the novel plays a large role in relation to the love that Jay Gatsby has always had for Daisy. Throughout the novel the color green is brought up quite frequently. Fitzgerald uses the color green in the novel to emphasise on hope, to never lose hope on going after what you truly want. Similar to
Since it is always going to be there it could mean that once Gatsby conquers his dream of getting the girl, she will always have a special place in his heart. So his feelings for her are always going to be constant, similar to how the burning of the green light will always be constant. The light is constantly shining. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock” (Fitzgerald 98). That is what Gatsby says to Daisy as they are standing right next to each other. When they are talking and interacting with each other, Gatsby is ecstatic because it is the girl he has only dreamt of, who he is now standing arm and arm with. When Gatsby and Daisy are looking deeply into each other's eyes and talking, Nick notices they both are in love so he leaves them to be alone. At this point Gatsby has everything he has ever wanted. Him and Daisy are alone. It cannot be like that forever, so now after all of the interactions they had, he became more in love with her and so the spot in his heart for her is deeper and deeper. In relation to the green light being constant, this goes to show that Gatsby’s love will always be constant for Daisy, no matter how far away from each other they are. Just like how the light from Daisy’s house is also distant. At this point Gatsby has all of the hope in the world, that he is going to get Daisy, but once reality hits him, he will realize he will not get Daisy. “In the sunlight his face was green” (Fitzgerald 129). George Wilson knows that his wife is not loyal so by his face turning green in the light and then being normal color without light, it shows that he has hope but then it all goes away when reality comes into play because he deep down knows she is not loyal and that a relationship cannot work if that is