The Underlying Colors Of The Great Gatsby Colors can symbolize many things. In a book an author can take color and give it their own symbol. F. Scott Fitzgerald does a beautiful job of this in his book The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald brings the use of colors into the plot of this book. He gives each color an underlying meaning. The colors represent the dream and the reality of the book. The main two colors …showed first 75 words of 641 total…

…showed last 75 words of 641 total…of T.J. Eckleburg are said as being the eyes of God which sees everything, which shows the corruption going on there even though that God is present. The color red is also symbolized much in The Great Gatsby. It symbolizes the abuse and corruption, which takes place in the book. Through the colors of the book the underlying meanings come out. It makes for a rich description and wonderful symbolism in The Great Gatsby.