Mohamed Yagoub
3/31/16
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The Great Gatsby
Over the course of time, many great writers have been able to use colors to help them give their stories more life. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he does this method perfectly. The first color used in the story is the green light, which symbolizes an unrealistic future. The second color is the color in the story grey, which symbolizes the lifelessness in the city. Finally, the third color in the story is gold, which represents the money in the story. These are many examples of colors from the story that are used to symbolize something greater.
The first color is green which symbolizes an unrealistic future. It symbolizes Gatsby’s unrealistic future that he wants with Daisy. Daisy is a woman, Gatsby met when he was young and has been madly in love with her ever since. In The Great Gatsby for the past five years, Gatsby has been dreaming about what his life would be like once him and Daisy got back together. When Gatsby and Daisy finally met up again and stared at the green light together on his dock something happened to Gatsby. Gatsby may have finally realised “that light had now vanished”(p.93) . What this quote means is that Gatsby now realizes that everything isn’t the same like it used to be because, the Daisy with him now, is not the Daisy that he knew five years ago. That is why the color green symbolizes an unrealistic future that Gatsby wants.
While the first color green was being symbolized, the second color is grey which symbolizes the lifelessness in the city. The grey symbolizes how everyone and everything in the city is dull and has no life in it. There are many examples throughout the book that help support this. In the story, when Tom first brings Nick into New York with him, it is described as a “valley of ashes”(23) . What that means is that the whole city was a city not containing any color or exciteme...
