The Great Gatsby Imagery Analysis

. In The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses imagery in the form of the color blue to illustrate Gatsby’s lavish, luxurious life as a lonely, depressing one with the use of foreshadowing, symbols, and similes/metaphors. The story takes place in Long Island , New York in the roaring twenties, in the point of view of Nick Carraway. Nick moves next door to a billionaire who hosts the wildest parties which draw the wildest guests. Nick comes in touch with some friends of Daisy, his cousin, Tom, his brother-in-law, and Gatsby, his neighbor. All of these characters play a large role in the outcome of this story. Wilson’s wife, whom both are friends of Tom, is killed by Tom and Daisy; Wilson figures that Gatsby was the one responsible for it.
It was tole towards the end of the book before Gatsby’s death about Gatsby’s death. “...ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves” (Fitzgerald 152). This quote is a subtle foreshadowing to the death of Gatsby, under the leaves. Could these birds be the crows before death? “...a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn’t far off. About five o’clock it was blue enough outside to snap off the light” (Fitzgerald 159). Wilson and Gatsby are parallel in certain ways; they both resent and are drawn to the materialism of their wealthy friends. As Gatsby and Wilson’s story runs parallel in the ways that they do, it is also ironic in how Wilson is the one who kills Gatsby, as they are both similar in