Color In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Colors speak louder than words”. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses colors in The Great Gatsby very uniquely to represent the different qualities in the book. Fitzgerald played colors against each other to show the different social classes, the different symbols of the colors, and how they went with the storyline of the book. Two colors that are contrasted in this book are red and pink. These colors both relate to love and romance but also differ in social classes since red goes with Old Rich and pink goes with New Rich. The color pink describes the relationship of Gatsby and Daisy because it is a fake love almost in a way like pink is an “off red”. Daisy said, “I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around” to Gatsby when she visited his house for the first time (94). Fitzgerald uses this quote to show how Daisy was pushing Gatsby around by thinking that she loved him but knowing she would never leave Tom. Gatsby’s pink suit also shows his over-the-top love for Daisy while also recognizing that he was New Rich. Red is mainly showed at the Buchanan house because Daisy and Tom are Old

Fitzgerald has many tragic deaths near the end of the book including Myrtle’s, Gatsby’s, and Wilson’s. There are so many events and miscommunications that lead up to these deaths but there are also some foreshadowings. Myrtle tells Mrs. Mckee that she is going to get, “. . .a wreath with a black silk bow for mother’s grave that’ll last all summer” not knowing that her death was in the near future also (36). When Gatsby and Daisy reunite at Nick’s house, Nick leaves and goes to “a huge black knotted tree, whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain”(88). The whole time he is under this tree, he is thinking about Gatsby which could be another foreshadowing of his future death. The color black shows the emptiness of those who have now died and of Nick, who has lost Gatsby, the only person he really