Colors are everywhere. They make up everything we see. Many times they are associated with feelings, emotions, characteristics, etc. In his book, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many colors as symbols to represent many feelings, passions, and descriptions. Each color has its symbol, some have obvious ones, such as gray which embodies the lack of life; however, some have more hidden meanings as black exemplifies the destruction of negativity (people usually think of black more as a negative color in general). A color that represents Gatsby very well, and the Jazz Age as a whole, is the color silver, and it means charming and mysterious; distinct, which is an excellent description of the 1920s and of Mr. Gatsby himself. The color green also represents Gatsby well because in the novel green means something of desire that has the possibility of being unattainable. Gold is a third color that personifies Gatsby, as it represents wealth and extravagance in the novel, which is what Gatsby is known for. All these colors and symbols connect to one of the themes of the book, which is the idea of ​​The American Dream. The color silver is a symbol that represents Gatsby very well because he is charming with his building, his parties, his clothes, etc; mysterious because of how little everyone knows about him; distinct from how everyone knows who he is. “An hour later the front door opened nervously and Gatsby, in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold tie, rushed in (chapter 5 p84).” In this scene, Gatsby enters Nick's house before Daisy comes to tea, wearing an extravagant dress. The dress shows how charming he is, shows off all the money he has and how he stands out from everyone else with his... middle of paper... he has taken his life into his own hands, and through some illegal means (implied but not stated in the novel), but ingenious, he managed to earn a lot of money. Scott Fitzgerald uses many colors as symbols in his book, The Great Gatsby. Among them: silver, gold and green are all colors that represent Gatsby. Not only that, but they also connect Gatsby to one of the main themes of the novel, The American Dream. Silver symbolizes and refers to Gatsby through his charm, his mysteriousness and his distinct nature. The gold represents Gatsby through his enormous amount of wealth and the extravagance with which he displays it. Green deals with Gatsby by illustrating his desires. The Great Gatsby is a great book that has lasted nearly a century and is a classic of the Jazz Age. It is full of symbols and themes, describing what the great times and difficulties of the years were '20.