Color in The Great Gatsby symbolizes a lot of things. Simple colors express and detail a lot in the book. That's what makes the book great. They are many examples and are very important showing what people are feeling. Fitzgerald’s use of green, red, and white in The Great Gatsby symbolize the character’s feelings. One way the author used green was for hope. An quote from chapter 1, page 20 to 21 is “he stretched his arm out towards the dark water in a curious way,” and “and distinguished nothing except a single green light.” The green light symbolized hope for Gatsby. As he stretched out his arm towards the light. His hope was to see Daisy. The way F.scott Fitzgerald used green was for hope. It showed Gatsby seeing it but not able to grasp
