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Green symbolizes greed and the un attainable dream of wealth and happiness. In Chapter 3 we see one of Gatsby's parties and the facade he puts on to help him get closer to Daisy as this his goal.

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"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"

-Yellow in the novel represents the "fake" gold. Inside Gatsby's house, everything seems rich, but in fact, it is just the surface. In contract to gold, which symbolizes money and wealth, yellow shows that Gatsby is not recognized as the "true" rich compared to the old money.

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White symbolizes beauty and happiness (positive emotion)
When Daisy first appeared she like a angle, beautiful, pure and attractive. (white)
" It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget"(9)

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Nick drove to two friends' house, the views that he saw, "The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon." (Fitzgerald, 8)

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"- and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock," (Fitzgerald, 21).

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- Daisy's name is a white flower
- “Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven” (44).

-“In the early morning the sun threw my shadow westward as I hurried down the white chasms of lower New York to the Probity Trust” (60).

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While Nick was describing Miss Baker he said, "Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of wan, charming, discontented face." (Fitzgerald, 11)

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"She was dressed in white and had a little white roadster."

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"But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby's houspitality and paid hin teh subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him"

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"I’d seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of GREEN leather conservatory, we started to town."

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"With fenders spread like wings we scattered light through half Astoria-only half, for as we twisted among the pillars of the elevated I heard the familiar "jug-jug-splat!" of a motorcycle, and a frantic policeman rode alongside. "All right, old sport," called Gatsby. We slowed down. Taking a white card from his wallet, he waved it before the man's eyes. "Right you are," agreed the policeman, tipping his cap. "Know you next time, Mr. Gatsby. Excuse me!"" (Fitzgerald 68)

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- But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paint less days, under sun and rain, brood over the solemn dumping ground (pg 23)
- Terrible place, isn't it,' said Tom, exchanging a frown with Doctor Eckleburg. "Awful" (pg 26)
-A reluctant boy went for a box full of straw ans some milk, to which he added his on initiative a tine of large, hard dog biscuits - one of which decomposed apathetically in a saucer of milk all afternoon (pg 29)
- His wife was shrill, languid, handsome, and horrible. (pg 30)
- Neither of them can stand the person they're married to. "Can't they?" "Can't stand them." "She looked at Myrtle and then at Tom. " . . . "If I was them I'd get a divorce and get married to each other right away" (pg 33)

Chapter 4

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"This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight" (Fitzgerald 26).

"The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner" (Fitzgerald 28).

"We backed up to a grey old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D. Rockefeller" (Fitzgerald 30).

"'Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief and I tried very hard to die but I seemed to bear an enchanted life'" (Fitzgerald 71).

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“Look!” she complained; “I hurt it.”

We all looked — the knuckle was black and blue.

“You did it, Tom,” she said accusingly. “I know you didn’t mean to, but you did do it. That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a ——”

“I hate that word hulking,” objected Tom crossly, “even in kidding.”

“Hulking,” insisted Daisy.

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Chapter 1 (Gold) -  speaking on books he bought to try and further his financial status. Gold symbolizes wealth and prosperity thus Gatsby uses the term gold to describe his books on his shelf because they are symbols of how to achieve wealth and prosperity "I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew" (Fitzgerald)

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Chapter 1 (Gold) -  speaking on books he bought to try and further his financial status. Gold symbolizes wealth and prosperity thus Gatsby uses the term gold to describe his books on his shelf because they are symbols of how to achieve wealth and prosperity "I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew" (Fitzgerald)

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At one of Gatsby's parties, the turkey were "bewitched to dark gold" (Fitzgerald # ).

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"Her gray, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her". (Gatsby)
In this quote, Nick Callaway describes the look in Jordan Baker's eyes and how he thinks he loves her.
"But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby’s hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him. "
In this quote gray is referred to as people