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

There a several changes used for symbolisationization in the novel The Great Gatsby.For example the colors BLUE, GREEN, WHITE and xanthous are used through push throughthe book. The premiere time Nick Carraway 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 illumine shades. This fact susceptibility 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 think of her as the unattainableenchanted princess who becomes incarnate as Gatsby s conceive of (p.21, l.8-9).The use of a cat valium brightness level 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 envision 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 munitionto 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 confideand see to it of Gatsby s dream with that of America itself. The color greenis traditionally associated with spring, hope and youth. The color olive-drab in The Great Gatsby represents hope for the future.It represents a at sea 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), base on money and not love. Blue also representsfantasy, and is a symbol of a differen t world. As Gatsby s lawn is blue, his house is a wander where people can goto get away from reality. His parties are out of touch with the real world,