Color Imagery In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

As the famous painter Pablo Picasso once said, “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions.”(Pablo Picasso) Picasso used the colors in his paintings to describe his emotions and real life events. Like Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his words to paint a picture for the readers. Throughout The Great Gatsby, colors are portrayed with vivid imagery that astute readers will learn to understand as they endure the magical, thought provoking book. This book is a great example of vivid colors, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote a compelling and detailed novel, The Great Gatsby where he explains the characters grammar social stature and their class representation throughout an array of colors in the novel. Yellow, white, and

In the novel, yellow is proved to show how reality is not always seen as perfect such as when Nick thinks, “Driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl. I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled towards us in haughty rivalry.” (Fitzgerald 69) Racism in the 1920’s increased dramatically. Seeing as this quote demonstrates racism, it also shows how the white’s [grammar] are laughing at the african americans [grammar] because the african americans [grammar] wish they had something that the whites have already achieved. They want a reality they can never have or afford in their common life, but it is something for the whites, that they either inherit from family or they work hard to gain it. For african americans it was harder because they did not have the opportunity for high paying jobs nor were they born into wealthy families. Later on in the book when Myrtle, George Wilson’s wife, is hit by Gatsby’s yellow car, the author is implying that as she is runs away from her current estate and getting hit by reality, which stops her. When the author explains the car he proclaims, “The ‘death car’ as the newspapers called it… ‘It was a yellow car,’ he said, ‘big yellow car. New.’ ‘See the accident?’ asked the policeman. ‘No, but the car passed me down the road,

As part of describing who Jay Gatsby really was, the author references the surging amounts of money that he has, as Nick describes who Gatsby really is adding his wealth into the description, he describes, “...an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.” (Fitzgerald 99) As the author describes Gatsby as having tremendous amounts of wealth and he is not the only one [grammar] . On the two sides of the lake there is east egg and west egg. West egg is where all of the new money comes in and East egg is inherited money from family. Gatsby lives in West egg, where he has made all of his money from working and creating businesses and a name for himself while Daisy and Tom live across the lake in East egg, where both of them have grown up on money and naturally have it from the families. It does not matter whether someone lives on East, or West egg as long as there is happiness coming from it. As green represents money in The Great Gatsby, for Gatsby to spend a surplus amount of his money on a mansion directly across the lake, throwing extravagant parties to see if Daisy would attend just one, shows the amount of money he is willing to spend an put into the relationship he wants to have with her. While jordan asks Nick if he would invite Daisy over to his house for Gatsby to see her again, it appalls him how he never