What does the color black symbolize in the novel Great Gatsby?
Colors can accentuate the meanings of a story and explain certain actions of a character. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald applies many important colors that allude to the personality of his characters. The colors given are repeated multiple times so that they can be established. To fully understand the characters of the story, one must recognize the associated colors that are given. Green is the color of “healing, money, prosperity, greed, luck, and fertility”(Nadia Davis). This color is closely associated with the green light at the end of the dock. “and distinguished nothing except a single green light/…might have been the end of a dock”(24), Fitzgerald symbolized the green light as the key to reaching Daisy. While on the beach, Gatsby is stretching out his arms to the light as if he will acquire it somehow. This green light represents money and prosperity, which Gatsby has obtained over the years in order to finally reunite with Daisy. Another important color in The Great Gatsby i
