There is a lot of color symbolism in this novel, but there is one that stands out more then the others. The color green influences the story greatly. Green is the color used to describe the main character of the novel, Jay Gatsby. It can also be seen as the color of promise, hope, and renewal. Green represents the hopes and dreams of people trying to reach the American dream. Since green is the color of money it is often used to show the wealth of Gatsby. When the people in West Egg and East Egg talk about Gatsby's mansion, green is always mentioned. "A large green lawn" surrounds his house and "green ivy" grows on his house. Also the interior of his car is described as "green leather." (127) This color also shows many ideas, thoughts, attitudes,

White is another color used in the novel. White can be interpreted as false purity and goodness, beauty, cleanliness, wealth, and innocence. Nick looks across the bay and he sees "white palaces of fashionable East Egg."(10) Daisy and Tom's house was a "white Georgian Colonial mansion."(11) When Nick enters there house two women "were both in white."(12) The two girls where Daisy and Jordan Baker. The white dress gives Daisy an innocence look. Jordan acts as though she is superior to everyone around her. Daisy often recalls her "white girlhood"(24). Also Daisy's child, Pammy is dressed in a new white outfit, and her mother describes her as an "absolute little dream." The use of white helps to characterize her as the unattainable enchanted princess who becomes Gatsby' s dream. Tom and Daisy's house is furnished with light colors. Daisy can be described as an egg. The outside of the egg is white and it shows purity and innocence, but on the inside of the egg it is yellow, yellow is corrupt and so is Daisy. Gatsby lives in a white mansion, and wears white or pink suits representing his innocence and pure heart. Daisy seems pure and innocence as well but her heart is not as pure as her appearance.

and choices that Gatsby has throughout the story. The green element in The Great Gatsby is taken from the "green light"(26) at the end of the dock near Daisy's house. The first time that Nick saw Gatsby he was looking at a " single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of the dock."(26) Another symbolization of the color green is the meaning go. In a tra

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