What Does The Color Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

Green, Red, White and Yellow as Psychologists in The Great Gatsby

Colors have mouth to tell stories about people’s mental state. Red, green, yellow, white and green are basic colors in nature. Writers create visual images by coloring things in their novels, poetry, short stories and any other kind of writing. Using color symbolism and images helps readers to imagine and see what is written in front of their eyes while they are reading. As Maia Samkanashvili mentioned in her article that writers are like “painters who make their writing visual and bright” (31). F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel The Great Gatsby uses symbols to present the style of life in the Jazz Age in America. By reading the novel readers can recognize how the colors serve reader to make connections between the actions of the characters and their psychological state. As Zhang Haibing point out in his article “Symbolic Meanings of Colors in The

Gatsby by seeking to arrive to the green light he idealizes Daisy as the princes of his fairy tale dream who just has left him because he is a poor man. As a result, Gatsby gives his life to make more and more money and to build his wealth. He lives a life of loneliness; he keeps himself away from people and from any kind of relationships. When Nick is about to call him he doesn’t do that because Gatsby “gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone” (Fitzgerald16). His hope “the green light” makes him fear of intimacy. He doesn’t make any real relationship with anybody in his life. As a host of his luxurious parties, which are full of people, he does not appear to his guests. They do not even know them, when they arrive to the party someone knew Gatsby introduce them and they sometime “came and went without having met Gatsby” (Fitzgerald 27). So, people around him just make guesses about who is he and from where is he. He doesn’t give people any chance to become closer to him and know more about him. Moreover, by