Red Symbolism In The Great Gatsby

“So we beat on, boat against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 182). A powerful quote that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses in The Great Gatsby. This quote is greatly associated with Gatsby and how he is trying to strive to succeed the American Dream. There were three colors that help exemplifies the American Dream and that are linked with Gatsby would be blue which represents fantasy, yellow signifies falsehood, red symbolizes danger and anger.
As blue embodies the fantasy and the new money that Gatsby was showing throughout the whole book. Gatsby throughout the book showed us he had everything he wanted in his fantasy land but the thing he wanted the most didn’t love him anymore. “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could
Thus the anger that that Gatsby had as he would drive into the Town of New York City he would see how the coal miners were killing their own family slowly as the inhale the ashes of coal. “The valley of ashes a fantastic farm were ashes grow to wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens...” (Fitzgerald 23). This showed that Gatsby still cared about the poor because he knew he was poor at some point in time and this hurt him it could’ve possible remineded him of back home.
As the previous colors were identified as fantasy and anger the yellow to the same extent yellow be acknowledged as fake money. Gatsby would be categorized under fake money because he has newly obtained money and his inability to enter the high class society of New York. “It was a yellow car… big yellow car. New.” (Fitzgerald 141). Another example would be T.J Eckleburg’s glasses, which were a color yellow, in this situation it symbolized that god is looking over the wasteland of America. I think Fitzgerald was trying to say how we don’t make American to our usage were making it a wasteful