Author F.Scott Fitzgerald included many color references and subliminal meanings behind each of the colors; in The Great Gatsby. These colors also help the reader create an image of the scene in their minds, and visualize the story. Three colors that Fitzgerald used, were, white, blue, and crimson red. Fitzgerald uses these colors so that the readers sense, innocence, the foreshadowing of death, and the loneliness of the characters in The Great Gatsby. The author F.Scott Fitzgerald uses the color white to symbolize the purity and innocence of the characters in The Great Gatsby. “An hour later, the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold-colored tie hurried in.” (page 84)
Gatsby’s white suit symbolizes his
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Jesus was crucified by the Romans who wore crimson capes with crimson mohawks.
The color ‘blue’ symbolizes, loneliness, sadness, and melancholy, but can also mean tranquility.“After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes power of correction, so when the blue smoke of the brittle leaves was in the air, the wind blew the wet laundry staff on the line, I decided to come back home”(page 176)
Nick no longer likes the east because of the horrible series of unfortunate events that took place in New York, he feels sad and depressed.
The genre of music ‘Blues’ is a melancholic genre, it mostly sang during times of grieving and times of depression. A good author will have you reading the book, a great author will have you living the book, that is what F.Scott Fitzgerald is, he is a chef, words are his ingredients, and the amazing marvel of The Great Gatsby, his masterpiece of a dish. The way he uses the colors as seasonings and sauces, makes the audience remember the book, as if the events, truly