Essay On Color In The Great Gatsby

Individuals perpetuate false personas to such an extent that they are convinced into a state of false consciousness of reaching the American dream, ultimately, this facade leads them to their downfall, exposing repressed reality from idealistic lies. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes symbols to describe the hollow nature of each character’s deceitful persona, which comes to show the ultimate theme of downfall through the individual’s perception of the American dream. The use of gold as a mask for the colour yellow represents authentic wealth versus fake wealth, further developed though Jay Gatsby’s pursuance of the American dream. The colour white known for is purity and simplicity is denoted by Daisy

“The biggest disease known to mankind is loneliness.” (Author unknown). This quote describes darkness in one’s life when one tries everything in his power to be with someone and it does not work. This is the case in the novel The Great Gatsby when the main character Gatsby falls in love with Daisy, yet she is taken and unavailable but he continues to chase her and only ends up short. In The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses literary elements in the novel is to create the story.

One reason why the colors yellow and gold are the most important motif is because it ties into the theme of the consequences of the careless upper class. In chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby and Daisy get in a car wreck and Daisy accidentally hits and kills Myrtle Wilson. Nick says, “The death car as the newspaper called it”(Fitzgerald,144). This shows that the colors yellow and gold represent death. Gatsby’s car is referred to as “The death car” and the car is yellow. It is a symbol for the negative consequences of the upper class and in this case, the consequence

Another interesting detail is Gatsby’s car is yellow instead of the standardized black of the era stresses the thought that he is engrossed with the obsession of displaying his material wealth to get the love of Daisy. The Death car is yellow, and in the novel yellow symbolizes money and corruption in the novel. The creamy color of Gatsby’s car also symbolizes decay of corruption; therefore Gatsby’s car is like a bulging piece of fruit that is overripe and has started to rot.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby, exposes the corruption and greed of the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald is able to captivate readers' attentions through his employment of color symbolism. Fitzgerald portrays important messages in the novel by his symbolic use of colors. Colors play an important role in Fitzgerald’s descriptions of the lives of Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and many of the other characters in the novel. Fitzgerald uses the colors white, yellow, and green to express certain sentiments to the reader, commenting what is going on in the story. Fitzgerald uses the color white to symbolize purity and innocence, while yellow is used to symbolize moral decay, and death. Green is used to represent hope and

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest novels ever written. It is best remembered and spoken about for it’s color symbolism. The main reason to why color symbolism is a studied topic in this novel is because the writer was also a painter. F.Scott Fitzgerald uses the colors gray, blue and yellow to symbolize hopelessness, loneliness, and new money throughout the novel. Fitzgerald uses the color gray to give the reader a darkened negative visual of what was occurring in the novel.

In this examination of the effects of color in mood and behavior in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby was in love with a woman named Daisy Buchanan and had been for over five years. He was on a mission to win her back and them be together at last. The only problem was that she was married to and had a child with Tom Buchanan. That did not stop Gatsby though, he did everything in his power to win her back, from having Nick invite her over to his house; to going into the city with her and her husband; to taking blame of her wrong doings; to standing outside her house in the crazy hours of the night to make sure she was safe with her husband. Taking the blame for Daisy came to bite him in the butt when Tom thought Gatsby

Colors are an essential part of the world around us. They can convey messages, expressing that which words do not. Gentle blue tones can calm a person and bright yellows can lift the spirits. If an artist is trying to express sorrow or death he often uses blacks blues, and grays basically he uses dreary colors. Without one word, a driver approaching a red traffic light knows to stop. Colors are representative of many things. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism throughout as a major device in thematic and character development. He uses colors to symbolize the many different intangible ideas in the book. Throughout the book characters, places, and objects are given "life" by colors, especially the more

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most recognized American novels. The love-story relates and molds itself into the prominent era of Prohibition, and bases itself off the drunken and impetus glory of the American culture. Fitzgerald’s writing plays with the complex and intricate meaning; his magnificent descriptions, metaphors, and character development beam through the pages of the novel. While looking into his descriptions and symbolism, Fitzgerald resorts into regarding the use of color in the story as a form of structure for symbolism. The use of the color Blue, White, and Yellow are prominent components

The Symbolism of Colors in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color to convey emotion, symbolism and meaning in the novel, “The Great Gatsby.” Every color has it’s own meaning and significance. These colors help readers associate words with visualizations. Without these representations, readers would not fully understand the concept of the story.

     F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, uses symbolism throughout the novel to create the characters and events of the post World War I period. Colors are one way symbolism was used to develop the characters’ personalities and set up events. This is shown by colors like the green at the end of Daisy Buchannan’s dock, the color of Jay Gatsby’s car and how Myrtle and Jordan surrounded themselves by white. Other symbolisms used to set up events are the difference in the people of the West Egg and East Egg and the sign in the “valley of ashes”.

The colors throughout The Great Gatsby were used as a way to thoroughly paint a picture in the reader's mind. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses colors such as grey, green, white, gold, red, yellow, and blue. He uses colors such as an advantage to make the reader have a better description whilst they read.

Color is an extremely important detail when it comes to life. Without color, life would be dull and not full of aesthetics. Many things in life have a color connotation. This means that the word “apple” often reminds people of the color red, or the word “snow” often reminds people of the color white. When people think of the color green, it may remind them of the word “money” or “nature”, but the perception of the color green changes within different culture. For instance, in Egypt, green represents hope and spring. However, in the United States it represents money and jealousy. When thinking of Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, the color I associate with him is green. There are many reasons why I connect Gatsby with the color green.

Thesis: The symbolic meaning of the colors: green, red, white and yellow, in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, serve to reveal the core issues that Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom have.

In the following essay, I will write about the usage and the importance of colour in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, basing my arguments on the text and giving examples from it.