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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is full of symbols and symbolic ideas. Fitzgerald portrays important messages in the novel by his symbolic use of color, names, places and characters.
A lot of important messages in the novel are conveyed by color symbolism. Colors are an important part in Fitzgerald's description of the lives of Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and the other characters. The color grey is used to descbribe the valley of ashes which lies between West Egg and New York, "…grey cars… grey ashes… the grey land" (27). The color grey conveys the feeling of lacking spirit and dreariness. This area was where men worked tirelessly in the ashes, and people saw this area as dirty and low-life. Mr. Wilson, the husband of Tom's lover, Myrtle, is a handsome but lifeless man who is described as gray by the ashes in the air. The gray on him symbolizes the lack of life spirit that he has. White is frequently used in the Great Gatsby as a symbol of innocence. Daisy's......

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