Color Symbolism In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about a man named Nick Carraway, whos is brought into a life of wealth, corruption, and a alternate reality rich people live. Colors play a big role in the 21 century and are mainly represented in pictures, art, movie, etc. But a lot of us don't look at colors as a representation of who someone is or what way do. In the book, colors show an alternate world of emotion, scandal and passion that aren't directly mentioned in the book but are greatly supported if you look hard enough. The most symbolic colors in my opinion are Yellow, Blue, and Green, which are carefully spread throughout the book to not overwhelm the reader but to keep them wondering.
Yellow/gold seem to be the most represented in this

Mostly, the color is related to Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, because a lot of it is unhappiness in their own lives and the Fantasy of reconnected to one another. It can also be related to the valley of ashes, which is where unhappiness is normal and Judgment or the idea of god, that someone is always watching the moral decay and corruption that was going on throughout the book. Gatsby makes his own sorta fantacy place so he and his guess can get away,”In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” (pg.39). The garden is described as blue to show fantasy or escape from reality, and we see later in the book that Gatsby brings Daisy to this garden and has a fantasy moment with her, only to be brought back to reality when his business interrupts. Now blue also is closely related to Gatsby and Daisy's relationship and what's really there,“He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”. This quote is a great representation to the relationship of Daisy and Gatsby. There's Daisy who lives in east egg and Gatsby in west egg, and the bay that separates them, or “blue lawn”, which expresses reality about Daisy and Gatsby's relationship. But the blue can also be viewed as hope to Gatsby, that there's hope

So Green is represented as hope, serenity, or longing, and this represents Gatsby’s endless goal to once again be with his love. The green light is a very important point in the book because of the representation it expresses and the point it gets across,“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (pg.180). This quote is nick looking back to when we first saw Gatsby out on the dock that night, and remembering him reaching out for that green light. The green light is Daisy or him and Daisy, depending on how you see it and his believing that one day he could be with her again. Gatsby’s world of becoming something he was never suppose to be and playing this role of an oxford graduate, is what got him killed. Because Gatsby is no better than anyone else in the book, he still lies and is corrupt, and if he would have been honest with Daisy earlier, maybe he'd still be