What Does The Color Gold Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

Color is used in literature to create a more detailed image for readers, in The Great Gatsby color is represented through the different characters and objects. Color is used in this novel to also make the authors ideas more in depth and realistic. Many times throughout the novel color is represented for the words that are not said about each character. Each color in The Great Gatsby has a detailed meaning and usage to strengthen the understanding of the novel. The colors affect how the reader thinks of the characters and describes their personality. The Great Gatsby reveals many colors through the characters, and what lifestyle they live. Yellow and gold represent the money and the death throughout the novel. Green is the most repeated color in the novel, it symbolizing the future and the “American Dream”.

Gold symbolizes richness, wealthiest, happiness, success, promise. The author uses the color gold to indicate and imply the unwritten descriptions. At Gatsby’s parties even the turkeys turn to gold “...turkeys bewitched to a dark gold” (p. 41). This example is showing the amount of wealth and the atmosphere of Gatsby’s party. Jordan Baker’s character is affected by the color gold. She is the golden girl of golf. The narrator describes her, “With Jordan’s slender golden arm resting in mine” (p. 44); “I put my arm around Jordan’s golden shoulder” (p. 77). Daisy is described as the “golden girl” (p. 120). The color gold is one of the most frequently used colors in The Great Gatsby. The old money, people of East Egg, is not careless with the money they have, and they know how to handle it properly. Daisy lives in the East Egg, while Gatsby lives in the West Egg. She considers Gatsby’s enormous party’s to be corrupt and nothing like the civilized gatherings she is use to attending. Old money is family money and new money is earned in one