The Symbolism of Colors in The Great Gatsby :: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

There a several falsifys used for symbol in the novel The Great Gatsby.For example the colors BLUE, GREEN, WHITE and YELLOW are used throughoutthe book. The first time Nick Carr aside meets his cousin Daisy Buchanan at Tomsand Daisys home, she was dressed totally in white. So as the house andits furnishings are also tuned in lightheaded shades. This fact skill be interpretedas beauty, cleanliness, wealth, innocence, virginity and also laziness.Daisys color is white, she wears white dresses and recalls her whitegirlhood, and this use of color helps her to characterize her as the unattainable please princess who becomes incarnate as Gatsby s dream (p.21, l.8-9).The use of a potassium light at the end of a landing stage to signal a romanticreunion, is intriguingly similar to the green light at the end of DaisysBuchanan s dock, which becomes key image in The Great Gatsby. The initialappearance of the green light occurs when Carraway sees Gatsby for thefirst time, standing in front of his mansion and stretching out his armsto a single green light, minute and far away that might have been theend of dock (p.22, l 31-33). The light has become, for Gatsby, the symbolof a reunion with Daisy. Green is very significantly associated with boththe green light and the green breast of the new world, uniting the hopeand promise of Gatsby s dream with that of America itself. The color greenis traditionally associated with spring, hope and youth. The color blue in The Great Gatsby supports hope for the future.It represents a lost time, a pure color that is overly displayed, a purecolor in the valley of ashes. T.J. Eckleburgs eyes are blue, perhaps symbolizinga higher world from which God looks down upon the scene. Toms car being blue may evenrepresent the relationship between Tom and Daisy, (being unhappy), based on money and not love. Blue also representsfantasy, and is a symbol of a different world. As Gatsby s lawn is blue, his house is a place where people can goto get away from reality. His parties are out of touch with the real world,