Color Symbolism by kiley cunningham

emily, bethany, susannah, alia

2025-03-27 23:16:13 UTC

Blue:

The cover

The deeper meaning: the dark blue surrounding the parties at the bottom represents the meloncholy surrounding a facade of happiness. Happiness is temporary for someone who is not fulfilled.

Isabel, Avalon, Laura

2025-03-27 23:20:02 UTC

White:

“They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.” (Ch. 1, Pg. 5).

Deeper Meaning: The white represents innocence and purity which is placed on Daisy to represent the irony of her lack of innocence and purity.

The Color Grey

2025-03-27 23:20:52 UTC

"This is the 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 ash-grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally, a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track and 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 clud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly" -Chapter 2

Deeper meaning: Lifelessness

Explanation: You can see how it's lifelessness because the men are ash-grey and no longer desire to be a part of the Valley of Ashes and the life they live. Along with this it talks about the greyness of the land and the lack of life.

Yellow/Gold by Brynn, Deacon, Justin, Victoria

2025-03-27 23:21:10 UTC

in chapter 3 "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another." this quote is showing how lavish everything in Gatsby's Mansion is with the real brass and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.

"It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns." Gatsby's car is a symbolism of his wealth and the lack of modesty.

Lavender

2025-03-27 23:21:31 UTC

Symbolistic for: Over-indulgence (usually an extensive display of wealth)

"We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing-rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms, with sunken baths---intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor" (Fitzgerald Ch. 5).
While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher ---shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue" (Ch. 5).

Meaning:

Every time the word "lavender" is mentioned, the word is attached to some sort of materialistic object that clearly could only be afforded by someone of a higher status of wealth (i.e. hat, taxi, silk, etc.). In other words, it emphasizes the extent to which over-indulgence is taken in the setting of The Great Gatsby, notably how it often decorates the characters it surrounds, such as Jay Gatsby or Daisy Buchanan. Grammatically, the word "lavender" is also sometimes bunched with a plentiful description, sometimes too filling and often a reflection of the word's symbolism itself.

Julia, Haley, Dontae, Trinity