https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4 By Sonia, Dušan and Nich en-us 2018-01-26 06:03:16 UTC 2018-01-31 02:35:30 UTC hello@padlet.com clark36785 https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224940514 White in the Great Gatsby represents innocence as in the beginning of the book, Daisy's car and clothes are all white, perhaps to show a facade of purity (in the end we realise that daisy is far from innocent). White in the great gatsby represents honour, when he describes daisy coming from a 'white' palace. Perhaps, it symbolises an emptiness within daisy, a blankness? 

]]> 2018-01-26 06:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224940514 clark36785 https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224940528 The most recurring color in the novel is yellow. Yellow is the color of gold, which symbolizes money, materialism and high social position. In Western culture, the yellow color is the color of the aristocratic class, so it represents wealth and noble
identity. In order to win Daisy back, Gatsby chooses the yellow color to decorate himself and his house to show that he has been
a member of the rich folk. He has a gold tie, yellow car, gold toilet set. Furthermore, his lavish parties are decorated with gold and include 'yellow golden music'. Daisy is described as a 'golden girl', meaning that the color represents luxury, but greed as well. Her voice is also the sound of a gold coin, a showcase of this. Gold also has quite a negative conotation as well as it represents the end of the American Dream. The American Dream ends with a yellow car running over Myrtle Wilson, which lead to Gatsby's death in the end.]]> 2018-01-26 06:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224940528 jones8595 https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224940593 Light represents hope. Green light is hope for Gatsby to one day be reunited with daisy. Moonlight/ Sunlight]]> 2018-01-26 06:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224940593 popov866601 https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224940942 The colour blue is used throughout the novel. 
This color represents Gatsby and his unrealistic illusions, which cause a feeling of melancholy and loneliness in his heart. Blue is omnipresent around Gatsby. His gardens are blue. They are a place where Gatsby holds parties to impress Daisy, but fails, which makes deepens his sadness. His chaffeur wears blue. The 'blue lawn' represents the water separating East Egg and West Egg, and in turn, Daisy and Gatsby, which adds to this melancholic feeling. In Chapter IX, Nick sees the 'blue lawn' mingled with the 'blue smoke of brittle leaves', which represents the disillusionment of the American Dream in the Roaring Twenties and a sense of what is going to come. Furthermore, his transformation into Jay Gatsby is surrounded with the color blue. Cody buys him a blue coat, which is symbolic to it. The eyes of T.J. Eckleburg are also blue and so is the car of Tom Buchanan. T.J. Eckleburg represents a figure of authority and his blue eyes loom over the moral wasteland that the 'valley of ashes' is. This represents a critique of the American society. The car of Tom Buchanan again comes back to the materialist views of this society.]]> 2018-01-26 06:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224940942 clark36785 https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224942312 Green is a recurrent motif in the Great Gatsby - the colour has many connotations with life, vitality, and hope, in traditional imagery the colour of spring and nature. In the book, green can be seen as a standin for Gatsby's dreams and ambitions, with his lush gardens and grounds acting as a metaphorical representation of his expectations and wants. The "green light" is the most significant recurrent image, where the light at the end of Daisy's dock, becomes, in the eyes of Gatsby, a standin for Daisy as a whole, and the gulf that exists between them. The light is small and dull, and in it we gain an understanding of Gatsby's folly and his desperate faith in the face of circumstance. The green light, representing an individual hope, can also be seen as a shared one - the dream of America as both a "shining city of the hill", and an edenic "God's green land". With Gatsby's death comes the death of belief in that dream, building towards the novels critique of the 'American dream'. ]]> 2018-01-26 06:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224942312 popov866601 https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224943718 2018-01-26 06:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224943718 popov866601 https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224943765 2018-01-26 06:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jones8595/jm9kw64ckyi4/wish/224943765