The Great Gatsby is a very colorful novel. Fitzgerald thought about this novel, he didn’t just put colors here and there. He focuses on where to put them, and why he puts them there. He carefully used the colors to symbolize themes, control the mood, and alter the way people thought about the characters. By doing this Fitzgerald challenges the readers to focus more, and to find the greater meaning. To Fitzgerald there is a science behind the colors he chose, which are: white with gold, red, pink, blue, green, lavender with silver, yellow, brown, grey, and black. The first colors are white and gold, which represents wealth, honorable, money, hollowness and purity. When Gatsby meet Daisy he was wearing white, symbolizing his honor. His white suit shows that he is honorable, unlike Daisy, who later betrays Gatsby. The characters in this book use the color white to act pure and right. Unlike Gatsby, Tom represents the color red. The second color is red, which …show more content…
In the Valley of Ashes, Doctor TJ. Eckleburg’s eyes are “blue and gigantic” (23, Great Gatsby.) When Gatsby looks at Daisy’s house he says he observes “the blue cool limit of the sky” (125, Great Gatsby.) Gatsby doesn’t see what he has isn’t totally real, once he does he will be empty: . “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy” (110-111, Great Gatsby.) The fifth color is green, which represents hope, and dreams. It’s a symbol for Gatsby’s American dream, and hope for Daisy. It also symbolizes the “green light” (21, Great Gatsby) at the end of Daisy’s dock. For Gatsby the green light is always far away, this represent a mistake in his dream. But it represents Gatsby’s hope, that they will end up together. Many people think of the green light as something evil, or bad. But the green light is hope, it’s a pure