The Great Gatsby

In his novel, Fitzgerald uses many colors. Some of the colors that he uses include gold, white, red, blue and green. The gold that is in the novel represents happiness and it is used as a rich color. It is like in the movie that we watched about Fitzgerald in class, and of the “golden dream girl.” In the novel, Jordan can be considered as Nick’s golden dream girl. Fitzgerald uses several occasions where he has Jordan “wearing gold”: with Jordan’s slender golden arm resting on mine” (Fitzgerald 43). Nick also puts his “arm around Jordan’s golden shoulder” (79). I think that Fitzgerald uses gold around Jordan’s arms because she’s a golf player, and thus uses her arms in playing. The gold around her arm might also symbolize how good of a golfer she is. White is also another color taht is used quite often. It symbolizes innocence and pureness. Nick is a character who is innocent in the novel and we see him wearing white: "dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven" (41). THe moon is also a symbol. And it is seen as an innocent character as well, " the sidewalk was white with moonlight" (110).