Color in the Great Gatsby
White * Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water. – pg8 * A cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. -pg9 * The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. –pg10
Red * A cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. –pg9 * We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy colored space. –pg10 * Rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset –pg14
Blue * The knuckle was black and blue -p14 * Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine -p28 * Sky bloomed in the window for amoment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean -p38
Green * Sitting down behind many laers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town. –pg69 * On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat. –pg125 * You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock pg99
Grey * The grey windows disappeared as the house glowed full of light. –pg101 * A breeze stirred the grey haze of Daisy’s fur collar. Pg116 * At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor. –pg161 Gold * Gold like new money from the mint –pg6 * Glowing now with reflected gold-pg9 * Turkeys bewitched to a dark gold-pg44
Silver * He used to be the silver polisher for some people in New York that had a silver service for two hundred people p-17 * Silver shirt and gold-colored tie hurried in. –pg89 * A product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Seventy-five. –pg106
Yellow * Lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair. –pg21 * They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous
Red * A cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. –pg9 * We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy colored space. –pg10 * Rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset –pg14
Blue * The knuckle was black and blue -p14 * Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine -p28 * Sky bloomed in the window for amoment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean -p38
Green * Sitting down behind many laers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town. –pg69 * On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat. –pg125 * You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock pg99
Grey * The grey windows disappeared as the house glowed full of light. –pg101 * A breeze stirred the grey haze of Daisy’s fur collar. Pg116 * At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor. –pg161 Gold * Gold like new money from the mint –pg6 * Glowing now with reflected gold-pg9 * Turkeys bewitched to a dark gold-pg44
Silver * He used to be the silver polisher for some people in New York that had a silver service for two hundred people p-17 * Silver shirt and gold-colored tie hurried in. –pg89 * A product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Seventy-five. –pg106
Yellow * Lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair. –pg21 * They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous