... way, such as the mist. The green light symbolizes Gatsby's persistent hope for Daisy's acceptance, even during encumbrances. Gatsby's character is illustrated by his car. Fitzgerald states "it was a rich cream color...and traced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns...(68). This depicts Gatsby as the new-money due to the "rich ... cream color" and a "dozen suns," which indicates a golden hue. The gold represents "earned" money, rather than inherited money passed down through generations. "...she (Daisy) was very nervous and she thought it ... ...

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... , transitioning from white dresses to yellow ones. Yellow also describes Myrtle as she desperately seeks a higher position in society. At the party, Myrtle's dress is described by Nick as "cream colored" (35), and "with the influence of the dress, her personality had also undergone a change" (35). With the wearing of the yellowish dress, Myrtle's whole being morphs ... ...

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... the American Dream. Another motif used was cars. In Chapter 4, Gatsby drives over to Nick's house to take him out for lunch, and Nick encounters Gatsby's car: "It was a rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes and terraced with a labyrinth if wind-shields that ... ...

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... sophisticated, her personality turns sour making her act like a puppet or music box figurine; in other words, inauthentic, exaggerated and transparent. Although Mrs. Wilson changed from her blue dress into a "cream colored chiffon" dress for the party, all aspects of white are absent from the characters and the apartment in this particular scene. The fact that Myrtle's entire opinion about her ... ...

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... car."" "It's pretty, isn't it, old sport?" He jumped off to give me a better view. "Haven't you ever seen it before?" "I'd seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that ... ...

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... on airs trying very hard to break into the upper class. For example in the train station drug store, Myrtle buys a copy of "Town Tattle", a magazine featuring celebrities, some cold cream, and a flask of perfume because she believes this is how the rich act. The reality is that the rich would most likely spend their money in an expensive department store ... ...

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... life, and become a prominent member of society; "At the news-stand she bought a copy of the Town Tattler and a moving-picture magazine, and in the station drug-store some cold cream and a small flask of perfume." Here we begin to question her dream, she represents materialism in comparison to Gatsby's "pure" desire to be with Daisy. Myrtle looks as if she ... ...

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... rampage. The one thing that helped Wilson track down Gatsby was the immensely wealthy and lavish life that Gatsby lived, it was the magnificent car that Gatsby drove. "Gatsby's gorgeous cream-colored car is also the indirect cause of his own death, as it is the deep imprint of the fantastic car on his excited brain that enables Wilson (through Tom ... ...

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... I). The blue in his eyes shows the corruption of the spirit. Slow changes of color are also seen in the book to show the symbolism of Gatsby's car. It is a cream color but it evolves into a yellow instrument of death and destruction used to try to fix their vain attempts at love The Symbol I). The author uses white to describe Daisy ... ...

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... image. An example of this is from an excerpt from a paper written by Scott Donaldson. "Myrtle buys a copy of the gossip magazine Town Tattle at the newsstand and some cold cream and a small flask of perfume from the drug store's cosmetics counter. Next she exercises her discrimination by letting several taxicabs go by before selecting a lavender-colored one-not quite a circus ... ...

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