1. Symbolic Light and Colors in The Great Gatsby
As we shall see, the color-symbols render, with a close and delicate discrimination, both the dream and the reality "and these both in their separateness and in their tragic intermingling. ... The light-dark symbolism is employed with great care. ... In this scene, in which almost all of the color symbols are born, Nick tells us that "the only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. ... But Fitzgerald is not content with this obvious and facile symbolism. ...
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