How Is Research Used In The Great Gatsby

Blue Skies and Yellow Lies: The Illusion of Gatsby’s Dream The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, follows 32-year-old Gatsby, who pursues Daisy Buchanan, his first love, in a desperate attempt to recreate the past. Gatsby’s chase of Daisy represents his desperation to accomplish the “American Dream.” Specifically, he seeks to move up the social ladder and be a part of the aristocracy, the highest class. Throughout the novel, Gatsby truly believes that this dream is possible, and clings to Daisy, revealing that his belief in this dream’s existence is rooted in an idealized past. Fitzgerald couples the symbols of blue and yellow to convey the image of power and high-class that Gatsby is determined to manifest into the world but will never solidify into a reality.

The blue coat that Gatsby is given by Dan Cody, his mentor, symbolizes a false promise of successful social mobility, tricking Gatsby into believing that his dream is possible. One of Gatsby’s first interactions with wealth is when he is invited onto Dan Cody’s yacht, where “a few days later he took him to Duluth and bought [Gatsby] a blue coat, six pairs of white duck trousers, and a yachting cap” (Fitzgerlad 98). To Gatsby, upon first sight, this yacht represents “all the beauty and glamour of the world.” (Fitzgerald 98). Fitzgerald purposefully makes the coat Cody gives Gatsby blue. In The Great Gatsby, blue carries “overtones of aristocracy”, or the notion of being “‘blue blooded’” (Rea 3). This is solidified by blue being coupled with