Color Symbolism In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Colors represent everything life. They express how you think, feel, act, look and how others perceive you. These colors are what describe the characters in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The colors that the characters represent let the reader go deeper into the meaning. Gatsby has many colors that are involved with his character and they mean very different things. To begin, the first color that represents Gatsby is gray. Gray is a mysterious color as Gatsby is by the rumors of him. In page 48 “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.” “I don’t think it’s so much that, argued Lucille skeptically; it’s more that he was a German spy during the war.” With all the rumors it brings a cloud of who Gatsby really is. Also on pg. 95 it says “I thought you inherited your money. I did, old sport he

These two colours represent the old money, and fake money. On pg. 44 it says “… and the turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.” On pg. 47 it says “With Jorden’s slender golden arms …” This shows that Gatsby is trying to fit in with the “rich” social class, and this can be told by pg. 47 “She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she’d take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses who stopped at the foot of the steps.” The car that Gatsby owns is also yellow; this shows of the fact that the new money is not as appealing as the old money is. This also shows that people with yellow are trying to be accepted into society of the rich as if it was gold. The yellow is acting as fool’s gold and if no one cares to realize its fake then they accept it. Tom bases his wealth on education as on pg. 128 – 129 “About Gatsby! No, I haven’t. I said I’d been making a small investigation of his past. And you found he was an Oxford man,” said Jorden helpfully. An Oxford man! He was incredulous, like hell he is! He wears a pink suit. Nevertheless he’s an Oxford