Color In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everyone pretends to be something they’re not, but the true colors reveal who they are or what they want. As humans, we do this in order to keep life as simple as possible, but it is an undeniable fact that there is more to us than what meets the eye. “In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.” This is a wise quote by a man of the name Anthony Liccione. He is an American writer who produces books, but people know him for his sophisticated yet simple quotes. Though this quote has no correlation to F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the meaning of it relates to several significant characters. As readers, we see countless examples of characters, judging

Picky about how she looks, Myrtle waits until she saw the perfect color car to pick her up. She had to go through several cars, as Nick says “Up-stairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxicabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with gray upholstery” (Fitzgerald, 27), which makes perfect sense that Myrtle wants a purple cab. Symbolism is key to Myrtle’s purple and gray taxi cab. As purple represents royalty and money, gray represents the complete opposite. This exact taxi is a flawless example of Myrtle’s personality, as to how she wants people to see her, versus how she sees herself. Like the dress, the purple exteriors represents money, wealth, and high social stature, which is exactly what Myrtle is looking

It’s more than just the money, power, fame, clothes, and parties, as the ideal life consists of love and happiness. Gatsby is a person who wants what he can’t have and will do anything to seize the improbable. Buying expensive clothing is just the start as people know he will wear suits that make him stand out from the crowd. Even Nick, supposedly Gatsby’s only friend doesn’t even understand or realize the true reason to why he wears such suits because, he says, “ I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon” (Fitzgerald, 142). All Nick could do was stare at how bright and elegant his pink and expensive suit was. That wealth produces these types of clothing, and Gatsby wears it to show his money and to impress those around him. Not only the money, but the suit gives Jay the confidence to confront Daisy and tell her how he feels. All of this money buys more than a suit, as his mansion is another perfect representation of his