Color Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
The flourishing 1920s were an amazing time full of wealth. F Scott Fitzgerald depicted that in the story “The Great Gatsby”. The main character great Gatsby is searching for his past love, Daisy. Gatsby lived across the lake in west egg, but every night he looks out across the lake and sees that green lantern and realizes that there is still hope. Through the empty lives of the three characters from this novel- George Wilson, Jay Gatsby, and Daisy Buchanan-Fitzgerald shows that chasing hollow dreams leads only to misery.
Colors can be symbolic of countless different things. Artists take this actuality into consideration when selecting the colors they use in their artwork; as these colors are used to generate emotions within their audience. …show more content…
The meaning of the color blue becomes understandable with the line: "In his blue gardens, men and women came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars" (Fitzgerald 43). Here blue is associated with flights of the imagination and dream-like parties. Subsequently, in Chapter VII white and blue are connected: "Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky" (Fitzgerald 124). White and blue "become the symbols of the ultimate bliss" (Schneider 1). However, these colors, just as Gatsby and Daisy's relationship, do not keep their purity as the novel …show more content…
The green light, which is representative of the American Dream, also represents everything Gatsby wants with Daisy. Half of green is blue, which is the perfect life the Gatsby sees possible with Daisy. It is the happiness he had with Daisy as a young man. However, Gatsby does not perceive the other half of green which is yellow. Yellow, just as in the Christian religion, is representative of greed and wealth. "Gatsby, seeking the blue, is blind to the sordid yellow" (Schneider 1). Yellow is the money in Daisy’s voice; it is the difference in class that will always keep them apart. It is this yellow that will be one of the two things that will represent the end of Gatsby and Daisy's
Colors can be symbolic of countless different things. Artists take this actuality into consideration when selecting the colors they use in their artwork; as these colors are used to generate emotions within their audience. …show more content…
The meaning of the color blue becomes understandable with the line: "In his blue gardens, men and women came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars" (Fitzgerald 43). Here blue is associated with flights of the imagination and dream-like parties. Subsequently, in Chapter VII white and blue are connected: "Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky" (Fitzgerald 124). White and blue "become the symbols of the ultimate bliss" (Schneider 1). However, these colors, just as Gatsby and Daisy's relationship, do not keep their purity as the novel …show more content…
The green light, which is representative of the American Dream, also represents everything Gatsby wants with Daisy. Half of green is blue, which is the perfect life the Gatsby sees possible with Daisy. It is the happiness he had with Daisy as a young man. However, Gatsby does not perceive the other half of green which is yellow. Yellow, just as in the Christian religion, is representative of greed and wealth. "Gatsby, seeking the blue, is blind to the sordid yellow" (Schneider 1). Yellow is the money in Daisy’s voice; it is the difference in class that will always keep them apart. It is this yellow that will be one of the two things that will represent the end of Gatsby and Daisy's