A Rainbow of Meaning in the Great Gatsby

A Rainbow of Meaning in The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, a wonderful novel written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby attempts to win over his lost love by making himself a different person, from personality to riches, after coming back from fighting in World War I. His lost love, Daisy, married another rich man while he was away. While he tries to impress her, he ruins his chances and dies alone. Nick Carraway, the narrator of this novel, connects with all the characters in the book and realizes all the good within Gatsby. This was written in the “Roaring Twenties,” when there were flappers, bootleggers, old cars, parties, and much more. Some of these things listed are included somewhere in the novel and they explain in much detail how the time period can relate to the storyline. In the novel, there are many colors shown to symbolize certain things. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the colors in The Great Gatsby to emphasize the characters and settings and create a better image of them for the reader. The colors gold, white, and green are all associated with one character or setting in the book.
The golden color portrayed through the book represents the richness, successful, happy, and valuable side of the story. This color is mostly used to represent Jordan Baker. Fitzgerald shows the rich part of lifestyles by saying that Gatsby’s “turkeys bewitched to a dark gold” (Fitzgerald 40). This turkey is eaten at one of Gatsby’s parties. His parties are always a big hit and many rich people show up to every one he has. Jordan Baker is the girl that Nick has a little thing for at the beginning of the novel. At one of Gatsby’s parties, Nick says “with Jordan’s slender, golden arm resting in mine, we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden” (Fitzgerald 43). They are making a connection between themselves and forgetting about the past when Nick puts his “arm around Jordan’s golden shoulder, draws her toward him and asks her to dinner” (Fitzgerald 79)....