One in particular, yellow, is of the utmost importance in distinguishing the different socioeconomic classes in the novel. Yellow is representative of happiness, optimism, honour, and loyalty, but can contrarily represent cowardice and deceit. (Bourn, Yellow). Jay Gatsby spends years of his life building a façade of wealth, when in reality he came into his wealth through crime. He manages to deceive everyone, including Daisy, only showing her the positives of his life. Gatsby’s car is “big and yellow” (Fitzgerald 139)—a symbol of his big desire to enter high society. Yellow is similar, but not the same as gold. Yellow is more dull, less beautiful than gold, and as hard as he may try, Gatsby is still surrounded by yellow, not gold. Gatsby puts on a deceitful façade and tries to act as if he is old money, as if he is someone of importance. But just like the colour yellow, he will never be as good as gold—he is ‘new money’, and will never be like Tom, Daisy, or the rest of The
One in particular, yellow, is of the utmost importance in distinguishing the different socioeconomic classes in the novel. Yellow is representative of happiness, optimism, honour, and loyalty, but can contrarily represent cowardice and deceit. (Bourn, Yellow). Jay Gatsby spends years of his life building a façade of wealth, when in reality he came into his wealth through crime. He manages to deceive everyone, including Daisy, only showing her the positives of his life. Gatsby’s car is “big and yellow” (Fitzgerald 139)—a symbol of his big desire to enter high society. Yellow is similar, but not the same as gold. Yellow is more dull, less beautiful than gold, and as hard as he may try, Gatsby is still surrounded by yellow, not gold. Gatsby puts on a deceitful façade and tries to act as if he is old money, as if he is someone of importance. But just like the colour yellow, he will never be as good as gold—he is ‘new money’, and will never be like Tom, Daisy, or the rest of The