Color Red In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

It’s a known fact that advertisers use colors to catch the attention of their intended audience, and they use those colors to make their audience feel a certain way about what is being advertised. Specific colors are used to Elicit certain emotions in people. Target uses the color red because the color red is usually associated with desire. The color may make someone have the desire to shop at their store. F. Scott Fitzgerald must have known this when writing The Great Gatsby because colors play an important role in his novel when it comes to his characters. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the significance of colors to demonstrate the different personalities that the characters posses. The color blue it mostly present

When Nick first talks about Gatsby, he talks about him as if he were the greatest man to ever live. The first quality from Gatsby that NIck makes note of is his hopefulness. Nick describes Gatsby’s hope as,"an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I had never found in any other person”(Fitzgerald 2). In the novel Gatsby was always willing to do whatever he could to get his long lost love back. There was nothing that Daisy said or did to him that ever made him stop loving her. Even when Daisy admitted that she couldn’t deny that at one point she had loved Tom, Gatsby still didn’t give up hope that she could love him back. The first time that Nick sees Gatsby, is when Gatsby has his hands outstretched towards the green light on Daisy’s dock. The light could have been any color but Fitzgerald chose to make it green because the color also represents something not faded. In the novel that something not faded was Gatsby’s love for Daisy. After Gatsby’s death, Nick talks about the green light and he talks about how,"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us" (Fitzgerald 180). The green light at Daisy’s dock was a symbol for the hope that Gatsby carried with him. Though it had been five years since Daisy and Gatsby had seen each other he refused to give up hope that he could win her back.

White is mostly used in the novel when it comes to Daisy. When NIck first meets Daisy and Jordan"they were both in white, and their dresses rippling and fluttering..." (Fitzgerald 8). When Daisy is first introduced she is portrayed as innocent. She seems like someone who is stuck in a loveless marriage. At dinner when Tom gets the call from Myrtle, Daisy knows who it is but she doesn’t try to start a confrontation. The relevance of the color white is also important when it comes to Daisy’s house. When Nick Carraway describes the houses in East Egg he says, “Across the courtesy the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water..." (Fitzgerald 5). A home can say a lot about a person's character. From looking at the Buchanan's house you can obviously tell that they’re rich. The colors of the Buchanan's house is white and red. Red is a color used to describe anger but white is something pure and with honor. The novel makes it very clear that honor is something that is important when it comes to people like Daisy, who come from old money. In the story between Daisy and Gatsby, the main reason that Daisy didn’t marry Gatsby before he left for the war was because he was dirt poor. Daisy had grown up rich and had a reputation to maintain. Towards the end of the novel Daisy’s innocence and honorableness is questioned as she essentially becomes a murderer and she leaved East Egg with Tom. Daisy’s