A Green Environment

Green is the color of hopes and dreams. It is perhaps the most powerful and meaningful color be...

Green: It is a friendly, warm and calm color. It induces a feeling of friendliness and openness thereby giving a pleasant feeling.

The color green represents life, safety, and wealth. In the novel, the color green also represents hope. Gatsby hopes to restore his past relationship with Daisy. A symbol of Gatsby’s hope is the green light at Daisy Buchanan’s home. It is a repeated reference throughout the chapters in The Great Gatsby. The first time it is mentioned in the novel is when Nick glances out seaward while he was looking for Gatsby (Fitzgerald 21). The second time that the green light, the green light of hope for Gatsby, was mentioned in the book, was when Gatsby took Daisy to show his house (Fitzgerald 99). “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” (Fitzgerald 193). The green light was a representation of hope and the future for Gatsby. The color green also portrays vitality and life. For example, on page 90 in the book, it discusses a greenhouse. That greenhouse is important because of the life it represents. Another way that green is discussed in the novel, is wealth. It is quite obvious that Mr. Gatsby is wealthy man and is not afraid to flaunt it. Between the green shirt and the green luxurious leather seats, the color green embodies the term “wealthy.” In The Great Gatsby, wealth is common theme, in fact, it is very hard to miss while reading (Fitzgerald 69.99). Within the wealth, it also implies the term safe. Although Gatsby’s wealth came about for illegal reasons, his wealth is supposed to serve as a safe place for

The Great Gatsby has many color symbolisms but green is the color that stands out the most in this novel. This color portrays many thoughtsm ideas, attitudes, and choices that Gatsby has throughout the story. It also depicts the urge to do better in life and to be successful. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.”

The color green is one of those colors that can not ever be missed. Whether it is money in someone's pocket, the green lawn a family sits on enjoying a picnic, a four leaf clover filled with lucky benedictions, or the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Green is a strong symbolic color that represents desirable, yet unattainable things and is shown throughout The Great Gatsby.

Gatsby is a hero came from a poor family at the American Midwest, but he was ambitious, determined to get rid of poverty through his own efforts to realize the dream in the novel. The author gives Gatsby a series of beautiful quality: integrity, strong, open minded, persistent, and love. In order to show Gatsby 's characteristics and dreams, the author used the green. Green is the symbol of hope and dream. It can show Gatsby is full of hope and the dream in his life. The reason why white as the main colors follow Daisy, just want to highlight a contrast, use pure white to highlight a contrast with her soul was decayed by money.

Green plays a very prominent role in throughout the novel, as it serves an important role in describing Gatsby. Green symbolizes the hopes of Jay Gatsby and James Gatz, as both the passion for Daisy and a future, and the desire for wealth and success. Gatsby’s main drive in his life is his desire for Daisy. When he returned from the war to find she had moved on, he made it his purpose to get her back, knowing he needed substantial wealth to do so. Green takes a key role here by symbolising Gatsby’s hopes. These hopes are shown in a very literal way, as Gatsby is seen reaching toward the green light at Daisy’s, like he is actually reaching towards his goals. This is one of the biggest scenes in the novel, in terms of symbolism, as this is the first time the reader sees Gatsby. The very first impression the reader gets from him is that he desires something so strongly that he is physically outstretched, reaching towards a green light serving as a symbol of whatever he wants so badly, which the reader later find out, is

In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald uses the character “Gatsby” to emphasize the substance of American dream and identity of the American society at that time. He uses green to represent Gatsby’s unrealistic dream, hint that his dream won’t come true and hint the ruin of American dream as well.

The first introduction to the character of Madeline, regardless of her true identity, is her in a green dress contrasted with the voluptuous red plush walls of the restaurant. The next time she is seen is getting into her car, appropriately green, completing for the viewer the association of this color with that character. Throughout the film she is amongst green things, such as the green box in the flower shop she enters. She even mentions that she loves the green of the trees, ironically in the Redwoods, another striking contrast of the two colors, though only verbal. The color plays into the mystery and trickery of the story more to fool the reader as well as Scottie as this is a color signifying passiveness.

The color green can signify many things in the every day life, people may think of it as “go” or as something positive. F. Scott Fitzgerald is an author known to use a lot of symbolism in his writings. In his famous novel, “the Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald uses the color green to represent various things. His use of the color green represents mostly what Gatsby desires most in life, but he also includes it to represent little things that need thinking to figure out.