In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald uses the color green in regards to many different aspects of the novel. ... The color green is also used in The Great Gatsby to represent money and wealth. ... Basically, Fitzgerald uses the color green in order to display Gatsby's success and riches. ... By introducing the color green, Fitzgerald is trying to show that Gatsby's personality is very powerful and that he has achieved many of his life's goals and dreams. ... Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the "roaring twenties" depicts the post-war generation of the newly rich and wannabes, whose extravagant lifestyles center around parties, wealth and affairs. Fitzgerald fronts his storyline with the idea of success, money and love that comes from the newly rich. ... Revealed through many characters, yellow exemplifies the idea of falsity and corruption in the Great Gatsby. ... Fitzgerald tries to stress the depravation of the actions Daisy takes after the accident. ... Fitzgerald fixates on the comparative idea of color and concept. ...

• Word Count: 1255
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby. ... " (Fitzgerald 110). ... Fitzgerald describes him as a "penniless young man" despite his rich fortune; emotionally he fails to develop which is why he is a man "without a past". ... Money drives Gatsby. ... Both objects being important in his life, however once he has Daisy close to him, "His count of enchanting objects had diminished by one," (100) leaving him in awe and forgetting all that has built him up to be who he is, Gatsby a man with great wealth. ...

• Word Count: 1317
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Fitzgerald's use of imagery is brilliant. ... The most prominent color Fitzgerald uses is green. ... It is also probable that Fitzgerald uses green to symbolize money and it's power in society. ... Time is another device Fitzgerald uses throughout the novel. ... Fitzgerald masterfully creates a time symbolism in the scene when Daisy and Gatsby meet for the first time in five years. ...

• Word Count: 1529
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School