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What Does Pink Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an interesting, extremely detailed book. The reader gets swept back in time by the narrator, Nick Carraway, as he tells the story of the great Jay Gatsby. Nick is incredibly detailed throughout Gatsby and describes everything down to the smallest detail, like the specific colour of someone’s eyes. Every colour has a meaning to him. This helps the reader to fully understand the characters and the story, especially when it comes to Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is highly associated with the colour pink. Pink represents childlike innocence, playfulness, and tenderness. Jay Gatsby was created when James Gatz was 17, still a child. Throughout the book, there are instances in which the reader is shown that …show more content…

Gatsby is a gold person. Looking through everything at his house, you can tell that he is a gold person. From the colour that his palace of a home glows to the colour of his tie, “...and Gatsby, in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold-colored tie, hurried in.” (Page 89), Gatsby is gold. It is no secret that he is either. He throws parties every weekend, his impetuous spending habits, and the home he lives in are all very obvious signs of being rich. He has this all for a meretricious Daisy, too. She seems to be a recurring theme in this essay. He could spend his money any way he wants to, but he decided on spending it for her. It’s not little bits of money here and there, it’s millions of dollars just to get her attention. Only someone who truly embodies the colour gold could be able to do that just because. In the end, his attempts are only halfway futile, as Daisy does notice him, and they fall in love. However, Tom comes and crashes the party, ruins the dream. He is just as gold as Gatsby, and can treat Daisy to a more safe, yet just as decadent lifestyle. Daisy decided to stay with Tom. Stupid Daisy. Money and riches and all the other gold things in the world wasn’t Gatsby’s answer to anything as he had earlier thought. A gold person doesn’t always make a happy

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