The Great Gatsby Red Analysis
In the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, red is used quite frequently. It represents passion, lust, rage, love, and shame, especially shame. It also closely relates to death and mortality. Throughout the book, especially in the first few chapters and the last few, different shades and tones of red will rear its head around the corner, showing us plenty of exciting and heart wrenching scenes. All the feelings, emotions, and actions that are associated with the color can easily be linked back to one household, the Buchanans.
It is clear to see from the beginning of the novel when Nick Carraway walks into the Buchanans when the entire house is decked in various shades of reds. Nick describes walking into their house as if, “Inside the crimson room bloomed with light,” (Fitzgerald 22). Tom and Daisy are two very passionate and quite eccentric characters, but they are not the only two. It seems anyone who seems to come into relations with two instantly have a life full of lovely drama. Gatsby was almost predestined to, one day, hit his downfall the day he met Daisy. The first one to fall in love is the one who fails. Gatsby loved Daisy, or at least he really thought he did. It was this love that would eventually bring him his demise, his death.
It is clear to see from the beginning of the novel when Nick Carraway walks into the Buchanans when the entire house is decked in various shades of reds. Nick describes walking into their house as if, “Inside the crimson room bloomed with light,” (Fitzgerald 22). Tom and Daisy are two very passionate and quite eccentric characters, but they are not the only two. It seems anyone who seems to come into relations with two instantly have a life full of lovely drama. Gatsby was almost predestined to, one day, hit his downfall the day he met Daisy. The first one to fall in love is the one who fails. Gatsby loved Daisy, or at least he really thought he did. It was this love that would eventually bring him his demise, his death.