In The Great Gatsby, it represents false purity.
Green - Don’t forget that green is the color of money, that Gatsby states that Daisy’s “voice is full of money” (107), a green light shines at the end of Daisy’s dock, and that Jay Gatsby desires wealth as a means to get Daisy.The colors used in The Great Gatsby includes white, grey, yellow, red, and green. In addition to the two men, automobiles symbolize recklessness as evidenced by Gatsby’s recklessness with money and the moral recklessness of Daisy as she barrels into Myrtle Wilson, killing her. Tom drives a coupe, a high-end, traditional, elegant auto. Tom refers to it as a “circus wagon” (108). The automobiles driven by Gatsby and Tom Buchanan symbolize their attributes as well: Gatsby’s car is gaudy and contains all the latest gadgets. Automobiles - Cars have been regarded as status symbols since Henry Ford rolled out the first Model T in the early 20th century.It is in chapter 7 that Gatsby’s dream is crushed and Myrtle Wilson’s infidelity is discovered.
It’s possible, as well, that the heat is, in some way, symbolic of hell and damnation. linking the oppressive heat with the oppressive situation. Daisy complains, “It’s so hot, and everything’s so confused” (106). Nick describes the day as “broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest of the summer” (102). Tom, Daisy, Nick, Jordan, and Gatsby head to the city as tension increases. Heat - The heat becomes oppressive during the climactic scene in the novel.World War I influenced the negativity of modernist writers. The valley can also be linked to WWI battlefields, where existed a no man’s land–full of barbed wire, shrapnel, unexploded mines, and dead bodies–between opposing trenches. It symbolizes societal decay and the plight of the poor, victims of greed and corruption. The Valley of Ashes - The Valley of Ashes, located between West Egg and New York city represents the moral decay associated with the uninhibited desire for wealth.His empty face may represent the modernist notion that God no longer lived, a symbol of the modernists' distrust of political, religious, and social institutions. Eckleburg looking down on everything that takes place in the Valley of Ashes may represent God looking down on a morally bankrupt wasteland and doing nothing about it. George Wilson likens them to the eyes of God. The symbolism behind the eyes, located on a billboard overlooking the Valley of Ashes, is open to interpretation. Eckelburg cast an ominous shadow over the goings-on in the novel. Eckleburg and the Valley of Ashes located between West Egg and New York City. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby include the eyes of Dr.