Topic > Color Symbolism in The Great Gatsby - 459

There are several colors used for symbolism in the novel “The Great Gatsby”. For example the colors BLUE, GREEN, WHITE and YELLOW are used throughout the book. The first time Nick Carraway meets his cousin Daisy Buchanan at Tom and Daisy's house, she was dressed entirely in white. Just as the house and its furnishings are in tune with the light shades. This fact could be interpreted as: beauty, cleanliness, wealth, innocence, virginity and even laziness. Daisy's color is white, she wears white clothes and remembers her "white girlhood", and this use of color helps characterize her as the unattainable "enchanted". princess" who is embodied in Gatsby's dream (p.21, l.8-9). The use of a green light at the end of a pier to signal a romantic reunion is intriguingly similar to the green light at the end of the pier in Daisy to Buchanan, who becomes the key image in “The Great Gatsby”. The first appearance of the green light occurs when Carraway sees Gatsby for the first time, standing in front of his mansion and holding out his arms towards “a single light”. green, tiny and far away that could have been the end of the pier" (p.22, l). 31-33). The light has become, for Gatsby, the symbol of his reunion with Daisy. Green is associated in a very significant at both the green light and the “green breast of the new world,” combining the hope and promise of Gatsby's dream with that of America itself. The color green is traditionally associated with spring, hope and youth in “The Great Gatsby” it represents hope for the future. It represents a lost time, a pure color that is excessively shown, a pure color in the valley of ashes. TJ Eckleburg's eyes are blue, perhaps symbolizing a higher world from which God looks down on the scene. Tom's blue car can also represent Tom and Daisy's relationship (being unhappy), based on money and not love. Blue also represents fantasy and is the symbol of a different world. Since Gatsby's lawn is blue, his house is a place where people can get away from reality. His parties are out of touch with the real world,