... simultaneously revealing to his reader their true essence. With the use of symbolic colors; green, gold, yellow, and white, he exposes the true nature of his characters. The most meaningful color used by Fitzgerald and depicted many times throughout the book is that of green. Green, on one hand ... it appears to be. In the beginning, Daisy and Jordan give the illusion of purity when Nick sees them wearing white dresses. But as the story progresses, their flaws are revealed, transitioning from white dresses to yellow ones. Yellow also describes Myrtle as she desperately seeks a higher po...

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

... leave her whole past for Tom, to the artificial fantasy of a perfect life that the Buchanan's appear to have, the most important figures throughout the story represents corruption in one way or another. As people may hold their driven aspirations to live a perfect life, the realization that money and materialistic items ... quotes, "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate