The Color Green In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The depiction of the color green is often referred to as renewal, confidence and hope. In The Great Gatsby, the color green is presented all throughout the text. To Gatsby, green is hope and the dream to one day be with Daisy Buchanan. The green color is closely depicted as the green light, which ties into the theme of hope and renewal. When the green light appears, Nick is watching Gatsby carefully as he stares at the water beneath him on the dock. “Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.” (Fitzgerald 169). The green light is seen at the end of Daisy’s dock. The light symbolizes Daisy because she is Gatsby’s life long desire. Hoping

By the light being so far away the hope of being with Daisy deteriorates. This is stating that there is no hope for Gatsby to be with Daisy. Another instance where the green light is present and represents hope is when he was done showing her the amount of wealth he has and a tour of his massive mansion. Daisy begins to whimper on the bed because she is so overwhelmed with the choice to stay or leave Tom Buchanan. Gatsby whispers in her ear. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock” (Fitzgerald 226). Being that Daisy is his green light he is simply stating that she resembles hope to him. Without Daisy, Gatsby would be incomplete. The green light appears throughout the whole novel. The ultimate hope for Gatsby was Daisy. Being that Daisy is selfish, greedy, and careless; he still pursues his dream of being with her one

This color portrays Gatsby as who he will is. He wants everyone in the world to know that he is wealthy. Yellow is the color of gold or wealth. The color is characterized as being prominent and it carries a high social position. In the novel Gatsby hopes that he can win Daisy back with his wealth. He chooses to portray this color by showing Daisy his extravagant house. He ultimately wants her to be impressed and leave Tom for him. When Gatsby is second guessing his home to show off to Daisy he thinks to himself, “He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.” (Fitzgerald 112) Gatsby lives in an imagination world that he drept of. He has a magnificent estate, golden car, tie, and etc., everything has a sign of wealth in his estate. Another instance where yellow is shown in the novel is when Daisy is crying in the bundle of shirts Gatsby threw. “It was full of money that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it… high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl” (Fitzgerald 99). All throughout the novel Daisy is portrayed as a golden girl. She is the walking picture of money. Anyone who is with her proves that they have wealth. Daisy is also the symbol of greed and luxury. All Daisy cares about is her social projection. She