The Color Green In The Great Gatsby

Great Gatsby Essay Option Two
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby uses the color green to show the artificiality of the dream lived by Gatsby, and the motif of Gatsby’s car as Nick’s dream and how it covers the bleakness of the characters lives. Both Gatsby and Nick have a lot of ambitious hope at the start of the story. As the characters live for their dream, they start to see a little bit of the reality showing through their dreams and wonder how real their dream world is. Finally, the reality settles in and shows the characters how bland their lives really are. Fitzgerald then leaves the reader with two outcomes of the destroyed dream, death or acceptance of the blandness. The characters embrace the dream at the start of The
When Gatsby car crashed into Myrtle and the “auto hit her. Ins’antly killed” (Fitzgerald 138) Nicks dream of becoming rich and successful just like Gatsby died with her. The crashing of the car into Myrtle was very important because it was not only the beginning of the end for Gatsby but also the event that killed Nick’s dream because the reality that Gatsby was not perfect and that his wealthy life would not make his life perfect. With this knowledge Nick evaluated his life out east. When this revaluation Nick saw that his life out east has been a failure and his dream has been crushed. He had broke up with Jordon, realizing he was not making any more money as a bonds man, and losing his one and only friend realizes that his dream was just artificial and was not going to happen. The east coast city has lost its magic and now “after Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me [Nick]” (Fitzgerald 124). The city had lost its promising artificial side, and now was what it has always has been just a place where a bunch of people live. Nick decides to leave behind this “haunted” city and leave for back West where he uses to