In the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, red is used quite frequently. It represents passion, lust, rage, love, and shame, especially shame. It also closely relates to death and mortality. Throughout the book, especially in the first few chapters and the last few, different shades and tones of red will rear its head around the corner, showing us plenty of exciting and heart wrenching scenes. All the feelings, emotions, and actions that are associated with the color can easily be linked back to one household, the Buchanans.
It is clear to see from the beginning of the novel when Nick Carraway walks into the Buchanans when the entire house is decked in various shades of reds. Nick describes walking into their house as if, “Inside the crimson room bloomed with light,” (Fitzgerald 22). Tom and Daisy are two very passionate and quite eccentric characters, but they are not the only two. It seems anyone who seems to come into relations with two instantly have a life full of lovely drama. Gatsby was almost predestined to, one day, hit his downfall the day he met Daisy. The first one to fall in love is the one who fails. Gatsby loved Daisy, or at least he really thought he did. It was this love that would eventually bring him his demise, his death.
In Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, many colors are used to represent various meanings. One color in particular that signifies a deeper meaning in the novel is the color, white. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the color white is used to symbolize both fake innocence and fake purity as well as to develop the character perception.
Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work The Great Gatsby, Nick Caraway undergoes a large transformation. His character arc demonstrates the negative effects of being part of a rich and privileged society, and that even though the 1920’s era looks beautiful and fun, a great many of its inhabitants were empty. Nick Caraway starts the novel hopeful, but as he is exposed to the amoral culture of the rich socialites and businessmen, he becomes cynical, bitter, and he abandons his habits of honesty, and reserving judgment.
Colors are very important in novels because they help the reader understand the deeper meaning of the topic. The Great Gatsby novel is one of the most well-known books ever to be written. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway, describes a tragic story of a rich man, Jay Gatsby, in search for his true love, Daisy Buchanen. Daisy and Gatsby were previously in love, but Gatsby left for war and Daisy left him for more money. Jay Gatsby constantly throws extravagant parties hoping that his true love will visit one night and they will fall in love again. Instead, Nick Carraway invites Daisy and Gatsby to his house in hope that the old couple will connect again. Daisy and Gatsby finally fall in love again after several years of loneliness. Eventually, their love ends in disaster. In the novel, color symbolism plays an essential role in the novel.
To explain the basis behind their relationship; Gatsby first met daisy at a party at her house that her parents were hosting for young army men in hopes that their daughter would find that could be a suitable husband. Soon after they became so close and fell madly in love. Daisy came from old money and gatsby had no money at all which made their relationship come to a halt when Gatsby asked to marry Daisy. With a breaking heart Daisy had to turn him down because she couldn’t marry someone that couldn’t provide what she needed...fabulous wealth. Many years past as Gatsby went to war, came back to war, and got a job helping Dan Cody on his voyages. After Gatsby7 was denied the money that Dan Cody wanted to inherit to him he got into the business of bootlegging which made him filthy rich. Everything he did over the course of the years was for Daisy so he could finally get to be with her. Sadly Gatsby later found out that Daisy had gotten married to a man named Tom Buchanan leaving Gatsby torn that Daisy did not wait for him to get rich. All gatsby had now was hope and a love so strong for Daisy that it made his heart ache. Tom narrates, “But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic
Wanting to be with her true love again, she sneaks visits with him without Tom knowing. Just like Myrtle had, Daisy torn into her own marriage. She loved both men, but as soon as it was found out, the men began fighting for her. “I glanced at Daisy who was staring terrified between Gatsby and her husband…” (Fitzgerald 143). This isn’t what Daisy wanted at all. At some point Daisy loved Tom, and it’s very likely that she still does, regardless of all of his cheating. Living a life of riches for so long has affected her with affluenza, blinding her morals as it did to Tom. When someone already has everything they could ever ask for, they’re still going to want more. Something to work for, or else life becomes boring as Daisy points out many times in the novel. When both men she loves are threatening each other and fighting for her fondness she’s realized what she’s done wrong. She’s fallen into the same trap as Myrtle, being stuck between two men, but she still has feelings for Tom.“I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily and say ‘Where’s Tom gone?’” (Fitzgerald 83). Gatsby tries to convince Daisy that she loves him and only him, yet Daisy actually loves them both. After Daisy was married she could think about anything except Tom, while Gatsby has spent the five
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick’s unreliability as a narrator is blatantly evident, as his view of Gatsby’s actions seems to arbitrarily shift between disapproval and approval. Nick is an unreliable and hypocritical narrator who disputes his own background information and subjectively depicts Gatsby as a benevolent and charismatic host while ignoring his flaws and immorality from illegal activities. He refuses to seriously contemplate Gatsby’s negative attributes because of their strong mutual friendship and he is blinded by an unrealized faith in Gatsby. Furthermore, his multitude of discrepancies damage his ethos appeal and contribute to his lack of dependability.
Like the author Garrison Keillor once said “ I believe in looking reality in the face and denying it” ,but in this tale , isn’t very wise. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, some of the character are in disillusionment, but the one that is constantly in it is Jay Gatsby.Although, people can do this, Gatsby tries to recreates the past and never considers Daisy’s reality.Through Gatsby’s choices, Fitzgerald displays his argument that people should accept reality .
Overall, Daisy’s and Gatsby’s love was doomed from the start. Fitzgerald associates Daisy’s love for Gatsby with sunlight. From the start, Daisy had been putting out that sunlight. Fitzgerald also made it clear that their love would not survive when he choose to place the novel’s setting in autumn.
When it comes to Gatsby, these colors represent him in many ways. Red is by far the most used color in this book. It is used so much because it has so many meanings. The color red is interchangeable with the colors crimson, ruby, blood, and rose. Red comes in various shades too, but with each different shade comes a different meaning.
The relationship between Gatsby and Daisy is one of constant lies, and deceit. Gatsby falls in love with Daisy before he goes to the Army as a young man, and Daisy fell in love with him too. Yet Daisy is very materialistic and Tom, a very rich man came into place and Daisy married him instead of waiting for Gatsby like she had promised. Gatsby waited for Daisy but she did not wait for him, and instead married Tom just for his money. This shows how there relationship has been riddled with lies since the very beginning of the story.
When approaching reading practices there are four different classifications, author-centred, reader-centred, text-centred and world-centred approaches. By applying the author-centred approach whilst reviewing The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in 1925, I was able to understand the dominant interpretation that Fitzgerald intended the readers to produce. The reader is able to recognise links between an author’s life and text (Queensland Studies Authority, November 2011, pg.4). The author-centred approach focuses on the history of the author and their personal experiences rather than the reader’s. The theories of author-centred approaches are useful in making interpretations of The Great Gatsby as the reader can interpret the novel as a biography of sorts. Literary theorists included in the review of The Great Gatsby are Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Moon. These theorists all work together to critically analyse the impact of the author’s personal understandings on what the reader interprets from the novel.
Jay Gatsby’s funeral is a small service, not because that 's what was intended, but because no one bothered to show up. Nick wanted to give Gatsby the popularity he desired, even in death, but only three people were present in the end. Gatsby’s father, Henry C. Gatz, shows up unexpectedly from Minnesota because he heard about the news in the papers. He believes that the man who shot his son must 've been mad, that no one in their right mind could commit such a horrible act. Daisy and Wolfsheim, the people closest to Gatsby in the book, do not attend. This exemplifies that it was always about wealth and social status for them, including Tom, and they never genuinely cared for Gatsby. Nick held up hope,
For most people, a certain colour may represent something meaningful to them. While in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many of the colours used in the novel are meant to represent something. The novel’s setting is in East and West Egg, two places in New York. Our narrator, Nick Carraway, lives in the West Egg. Along with living in West Egg is a friend of Nick’s, Jay Gatsby; a character that is in love with Daisy Buchanan. Unfortunately, Daisy is married to Tom. As the plot unravels, the reader notices the connection between certain colours and their importance to the novel. The use of colours within The Great Gatsby symbolizes actual themes, as grey symbolizes corruption, blue symbolizes reality, and green symbolizes jealousy and envy.
The color white is commonly associated with innocence and perfection, but when he describes the two girls he says their eyes are “impersonal” and with an “absence of all desire.” Fitzgerald’s description of the women seems less than perfect yet he dresses them in a color that embodies flawlessness.
Gatsby, ever since his first encounter with Daisy, could not think about anything else but spending his life with her, as there was something different about her than all the other girls. After his long absence, Daisy married the stern Tom Buchanan, believing that she would never encounter Gatsby ever again after waiting so long for his return. Once Gatsby was in West Egg, he ran into Daisy and then wanted to try to win her over again and to get her to leave Tom and marry him. He would try his best to get her love again with all of his "new money" as well as the extravagant lifestyle he lived. Throughout the entire novel, he displayed his persistence in his goal the many times he would go out with Daisy: driving around his white Rolls Royce, always wearing his finest suits, inviting her to his colossal mansion, and bringing her to lavish parties. "I thought of Gatsby 's wonder when he first picked out the green light. . . his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it."(Fitzgerald 189) It was in this quote that Nick, the novel 's narrator, confirmed Gatsby 's undying hope for some kind of future where he and Daisy are happily together. Gatsby never gave up on that idea and always worked to making it a reality, all the way until his death, when he was shot dead by