The Color Green In The Great Gatsby

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To close off, Fitzgerald uses the color green in a clever way to represent the themes implemented into The Great Gatsby and its characters, most primarily into Jay Gatsby. In the bustling, flashy and vivid time that was the Roaring Twenties, it is the color green that stands out the most in Fitzgerald’s story, regardless of it potential effects. Green comes to represent the search for a new beginning, hope, materialism at the cost of corruption, and being ambitious, things that were prominent during the Twenties and still resonate today. Gatsby’s green light still exists, but only within ourselves. Dreams are hallucinations of all the things that people desire in their life. An individual can do everything in their power to achieve their dreams, …show more content…
Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.
‘They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such–such beautiful shirts before.’” (92)
The materials that Gatsby’s wardrobe consists of are high quality, and its self explanatory that only those with abundant wealth can own such material in large amounts. Daisy no longer pays attention to Gatsby and becomes temporarily fascinated with the material shown before her. Both Gatsby and the shirts are equal in a way, but Daisy is brought to tears when it comes to the shirts, implying that Daisy could care less about what Gatsby has to offer, and more about what money can give her. Daisy’s materialistic values were known to Gatsby, but it is here when he realizes how it has changed her,
“‘If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,’ said Gatsby. ‘You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your