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The Great Gatsby Motifs
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Tom's Car
Gold
- Tom has a blue coupe
- Symbolizes his unhappiness with his own marriage
- Blue Blood
Gatsby's Car
- "money in large sums; wealth"
- old money
- "glowing with reflected gold"
- "I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder."
- Gatsby wears a gold tie to Daisy's house
- Yellow Rolls Royce
- Represents his desire to be accepted into the upperclass
- New money
- American dream
- Irony for Myrtle
Yellow
Works Cited
Automobiles in 1920
- "cowardice and desire"
- new money
- Gatsby buys a yellow car*
- Jordan's followers
- Myrtle's yellow dress
Colors
- http://thegreatgatsbysandm.blogspot.com/2011/05/cars-motif.html
- http://study.com/academy/lesson/color-symbolism-in-the-great-gatsby.html#lesson
- http://study.com/academy/lesson/color-symbolism-in-the-great-gatsby.html#lesson
- World War I had just ended and people were finally feeling free
- Was a status of how wealthy or unwealthy you were
- Put you in a social class
- Colors in The Great Gatsby are chosen very specifically
- Gold
- Yellow
- White
- Blue
- Green
Green
- green is a mixture of yellow and blue
- the light at the end of Daisy's dock
White
- innocence or being morally pure
- Daisy's car, clothes and room
- "white girlhood"
- the name Daisy
Blue
- Heaven, unhappiness, old money and fantasy
- "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went"
- "... ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves"
- "He had come a long way to this blue lawn"
- Tom's blue car*
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