Green, Gold, and White
Transcript: Green, Gold, and White By: Long Le " That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong". (pg 133 Tm) "It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete". (pg 173 Nick) Explaination In F. Scott Fitzgerald's , The Great Gatsby, the world is corrupted and full of sin. Fitzgerald shows this by using the colors green, gold, and white as symbols. Criticizing this world for it's greed,it's dishonesty, it's guiltiness, and it's immorralities. The following quotes prove how corrupted and sinful the world is. " "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter – to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning... So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"(Nick pg. 152-153) How Does Green, Gold, and White Symbolize Sin and Corruption? "-and it occurred to me that there was no difference between the sick and the well". (pg 156 Nick) "I lived at West Egg, the -well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them". (pg 7 Nick) "They werre both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering" (pg 8 Nick) "This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens...". (pg 23 Nick) "I'll tell you God's truth...". (pg 70 Gatsby) "That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm... The golden girl...".(pg 128 Nick) "I hope she'll be a fool. That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." (pg. 21 Daisy)