The Buchanans are the American version of the aristocracy. Its “white palaces” are not just fashionable. East Egg in The Great GatsbyĮast Egg is a place for wealthy people with heritage. Moreover, he is a relative of the Buchanans, but he feels more related to Gatsby. Nick’s house is “squeezed between two huge places,” indicating his moral conflict between society’s two layers. It is a copy of Hôtel de Ville in Paris, just like Gatsby is an imitation of the wealthy class. It is too grandiose to be a house for living. Gatsby’s mansion is enormous and tasteless. They are self-made people whose fortune is often illegal and made by bootlegging. The inhabitants of West Egg rapidly gained wealth after WWI. East Egg represents the old form of money, while West Egg stands for newly built capitals. They are opposed to each other, highlighting the differences in the sources of wealth. These two villages symbolize Old Money and New Money classes. There are three key locations: West Egg and East Egg villages, the Valley of Ashes, and the city. The setting of the novel is on Long Island, the southeast part of New York State. The events take place during the Jazz Age and the Prohibition era in the US in the 1920s. The white color also represents Daisy’s emptiness, shallowness, cruelty, and egoism. This color symbolizes everything Gatsby loved about Daisy. Her house is white, her dress and car are white. White stands for immaculate and pure beauty, nobility, and tenderness. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. The food and the musicians at Jay’s parties shine with gold. To impress his beloved one, Gatsby opted for the yellow color in everything: his mansion, his car, and even his tie are yellow. Yellow is the color of gold, which stands for material values, money, and high social status. The yellow color symbolizes the image that Gatsby strives to create. And one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. Jay was the only person to see the deep significance in the green light, and his dreams and aspirations passed away with him, just as the green light disappeared. The third and the last time, the green light is seen at the end of the story after Gatsby’s death. The Great Gatsby,įor the second time, the narrator mentions the green light in Chapter 5, when Gatsby has shown Daisy his wealth and almost fulfilled his dream. Involuntarily I glanced seaward-and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. He gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone-he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. When Gatsby achieved his dream (or understood its infeasibility), life lost its purpose. His vanishing in the darkness has a hidden meaning: a life deprived of hope is senseless and dark. That’s why it is associated with Jay Gatsby.ĭuring the first meeting with the narrator in Chapter 1, Gatsby stretches his hands toward the green light. It symbolizes hope, dream, and inner youth. In The Great Gatsby, the green light is the least mentioned color, though it is the most essential. Gray is the background color, symbolizing disappointment, despair, and even death. Blue is for the tranquility and loneliness of Gatsby. Yellow (golden) is about money and the decay of the material world. White is referred to as Daisy’s description. Green associates with Gatsby’s dream and persistence. There are five principal color symbols in the novel.
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