Symbols in the great gatsby by frederick c. millett
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Its fan of colors seems to include all the Earth as Yahweh gives the promise never again to bring universal waters. The most famous rainbow is given to Noah after the flood. The Bible, particularly in Genesis, gives symbolic meaning to rainbows, which usually indicate a blessing or promise. "Summer's green" gives way to the "violet past prime," while "sable curls silver'd o'er" and all nature wears a "white and bristly beard." Even Hamlet makes himself into a rebel in black, as he wears funeral clothing to his mother's over-hasty second wedding. Shakespeare steeps his plays and poetry in color imagery, from the corrupted red that stains the murderers' hands in "Julius Caesar" to the sickeningly limp yellow cross-garters that Malvolio wears in "Twelfth Night." Shakespeare's "Sonnet 12" uses colors symbolizing life's experiences as it discusses the inevitable decline of men. "In the sunlight his face was green," writes Fitzgerald. The face of George Wilson, who is jealous over his wife Myrtle's affair with Tom Buchanan, is described as green.
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But the color green quickly becomes poisonous. Green is first symbolically welcoming and hopeful to Gatsby: A green light at the end of Daisy's dock makes him dream of a life with her. More subtle is his use of green, which Frederick Millet notes as a paradox. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" makes liberal symbolic use of colors, including the obvious meanings of gold as a symbol of greed and graying ruins as symbols of death and decay.