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The Great Gatsby “He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man”.

John Fitzgerald Gatsby’s book it’s not just a story from the 20’s jazz epoch but it’s a deep fusion of a variety of symbols. I want to highlight the importance of the colors as a symbol in this book. Like the producer Luhrmann in the movie Romeo + Juliet (release in 1996) uses different costumes for each character to highlight specific qualities; Fitzgerald is using for each character different colors to express all the shades of their personality. But Fitzgerald doesn’t use only colors as symbols but also cars, flowers, eyes, and clocks." Firstly I want to focus on Daisy’s colors, since the first scene when she appears in the book, precisely when Nick was invited to dinner at her house, she was linked with white as well as gold,“Daisy and Jordan they were both in white and their dresses were ripping and fluttering”(p.13)" And also the second time Nick visited Daisy’s house she was wearing a white dress,”Daisy and Jordan…like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses”(p.110). In another scene where Jordan recalls her first meeting with Jay Gatsby she describes Daisy as dressed in white (p.73) ." Due to the association with white and gold for Daisy’s character, there is always a dual association with innocence as well as wealth. But Daisy is not innocent at all, in one scene she appears as a crazy girl totally in love with Jay Gatsby, “Daisy changed her mind”(p.74),also if Daisy’s emotions, as well as Gatsby’s one, were filtered through another woman’s knowledge, still we can see how when she receive Gatsby’s letter just half an hour before the marriage, she seems ready to give up everything to reach is beloved. But in the book what we mostly can find is this image of an innocent Daisy, which responds to Gatsby’s romantic idea of her." Gatsby too is associated with colors, mainly with green, the green light, the most important symbols of the entire book. The green light as a color is the symbol of life and growth but in Gatsby’s life the green light, the single green light on Daisy’s dock represents the unattainable dream, the dream that must have seemed so close that he could hardly fails to grasp it. The green light represents also the hazy future, the future that Gatsby ll always be able only to dream. " From the entire book we can see how much was vital for Gatsby the green light, from one hand the green light and Daisy’s dream improves Gatsby’s life, giving him the strength to transform his life from a degrading situation to be one of the most famous person during the 20’s on the West Egg. " But on the other hand Gatsby’s life looks like a journey in which he is not able to reach the destination. To give more emphasis to this concept I want to mention Nick’s words in the last page of the novel. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (p.171)." We also can find others colors which were linked to Gatsby, for example, when Gatsby come over to Nick’s house for the tea-party, his color scheme matches the Daisy’s one, a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie. " !1

This matching scheme colors between the two lovers is like an attempt of the writer to show that the two lovers were suitable for each other, but it’s only appearance because you can change your clothes, you can learn how to behave but you cannot change your story and your origins. In the opposite the day of the unlucky trip to New York, Gatsby was wearing a pink suits, here Gatsby’s taste in colors denotes the vulgarity of the parvenue. " Fitzgerald after giving the reader the hope that Gatsby and Daisy ll have the chance to live an happy life together, with such a small details as Gatsby’s suit color he wants to highlight how much Gatsby was unsuitable for the situation and unmatchable with Daisy’s lifestyle and Daisy’s surroundings." With all this symbols, Fitzgerald’s aim is to make the reader feels like is facing a treasure hunt, and the goal is to understand all the shades of the characters’s quality and emotion."

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