... between both themes. Gold represents old money because gold displays wealth. In contrast, yellow epitomizes new money as yellow imitates gold, but fails, lacking true authenticity. Fitzgerald attempts to emphasize the difference between old money and new money through the symbolic use of color. In the novel, the contrasting colors yellow and gold represent the differences between the two main wealth classes. Throughout "The Great Gatsby," Fitzgerald uses the color gold ... of gold to represent money and wealth. Fitzgerald describes old money throughout as the color gold, symbolic of the...

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... 's love, is mimicked within The Great Gatsby by two of the main characters, Daisy and Gatsby. In the novel, Daisy refuses to marry Gatsby due to his low financial and social status. This critical fact proved that Daisy's motives for marriage were not centered on love, but centered on her desire for excessive wealth and its accompanying social status. Throughout the multiple themes for Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Daisy is used to ... emphasize the common theme of disillusionment throughout American society in the 1920's. This constant state of disillusionment lead to the loss of hope f...

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