Tom discredits Gatsby’s intelligence by exclaiming, “An Oxford man! Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit” (129). Gatsby attempts to recapture the past, a time when he was once innocent and life was easier. In fact, he recreated himself into “just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (104). His pink suit recaptures his boyhood, and even Nick points out that Gatsby behaves like a boy around Daisy (93). He is trapped in the past, and the pink only serves to emphasize his lack of
Tom discredits Gatsby’s intelligence by exclaiming, “An Oxford man! Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit” (129). Gatsby attempts to recapture the past, a time when he was once innocent and life was easier. In fact, he recreated himself into “just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (104). His pink suit recaptures his boyhood, and even Nick points out that Gatsby behaves like a boy around Daisy (93). He is trapped in the past, and the pink only serves to emphasize his lack of