Authors use different symbols to represent the personalities of characters. ... Scott Fitzgerald uses different colors to represent the fazade of his characters Daisy, Gatsby, and Nick. ... Another character, Gatsby, is described with bright colors... Nick, another character in the novel, is a very lonely person who just wants to fit in but really doesn't. ... Nick is realizing that now that he is "thirty, it's the promising decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair-(143). ...

• Word Count: 546
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the story, Nick introduces different characters and reveals their natures to the readers. ... Even when he is a teenager, he has "a tight schedule and a list of improvements he must make on his minds." (Fitzgerald 164) However, Gatsby represents the poor young men who are excluded from the society of rich women. ...

• Word Count: 539
• Approx Pages: 2