One Short Day in The Emerald City

Every book that we read seems to stress importance on certain colors. This book is no exception. The color that stood out to me and the rest of the class was the color green. We first experience this color with the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. I believe that this color represents the wants and desires of ordinary people. The light represented Daisy and that was Gatsby's main goal was to please Daisy. The green color was also used to express the "green breast" of the new country when the pilgrims came and first saw America layed out in front of them. This land was untouched and seemed to them percect. What intrested me the most was the fact that the author used green, the color of money. Money in this book is what Gatsby tries to use to make Daisy happy. He thinks that money is perfect and is the sure fire way to win Daisy's heart. We all know that money like all things is not perfect and the perfection in money quickly fades and we are forced to return to our realities. Spring also comes to us in the shade of green. We also know from Robert Frost that this color does not stay and that even the perfection of spring eventually fades. Green, for me, represents the illusion of perfection in the world and represents what we want. This perfection can never. Green is springs first gold and "Nothing Gold Can Stay."