F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is rich in symbolism. Several different levels in a variety of ways portray this. One of the most important examples of symbolism shown in this novel is color. It is worked into the plot and structure in a way that hides it. There are several colors used for symbolism in the novel such as green, yellow, white, blue and many others. Fitzgerald uses color in order to better …showed first 75 words of 1083 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1083 total…the characters hide behind their colors and the colors show there true self. All the colors stand for different things. Green is the color of Gatsby, and promise. Yellow is the color for corruption, decay, and death. White stands for the false purity and goodness. White also is the color of Daisy. Lastly blue represents the hope for the future. In the novel of The Great Gatsby the symbolism of colors has the biggest part.