“Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering.
Fitzgerald utilizes the color yellow throughout his description of status and luxury, to symbolize the deceitful and cowardly acts of the upper class.ĭuring Nick’s experience among the wealthy class with Tom at Myrtle’s city apartment, Nick begins to ponder the deceitfulness of high status.
The Great Gatsby, through the usage of color, examines the less-desirable aspects of wealth and depicts a different perspective of the luxurious lifestyle lived by the novel’s characters. These descriptions, although attractive, also portray the negative features of status.
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