Essay Day! You are allowed to use: Rubric (front table) Rhetorical verbs handout (front table) Breaking down a prompt handout

Staple together: Rubric (write your name at the top) Essay Prompt / notes

The great Gatsby If you need to check out a copy, come get one from me today! Chapters 1-3 due Monday, 11/6 Chapters 4-6 due Monday, 11/13 Gatsby Chapters 1-6 Test on block day, 11/15-16 Chapter 7- end due Monday, 11/27 Final Gatsby Test on block day, 12/6-7

The Great Gatsby Color symbolism

  “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions” -- Pablo Picasso

Gold Wealth Happiness or prosperity: golden days, golden age successful: the golden girl extremely valuable: a golden opportunity

Gold At Gatsby's parties even the turkeys turn to gold. "..turkeys bewitched to a dark gold" (p. 41). Jordan Baker - the “golden girl” of golf - is associated with that color. "With Jordan's slender golden arm resting in mine" (p. 44); "I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder" (p. 77).

Yellow "now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music" (p. 42). In contrast to the golden girl Jordan, her admirers are only yellow. "two girls in twin yellow dresses"; "»You don't know who we are,« said one of the girls in yellow, »but we met you here about a month ago.«" "... we sat down at a table with the two girls in yellow" (all p. 44). Daisy's daughter has yellow hair: "Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair?" (p. 111). Associate this color with the same traits as gold (wealth, materialism) Gatsby’s outer self

Honorable; pure; innocent White Honorable; pure; innocent "Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white" (Daisy and Jordan, p. 24). "they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight" (Daisy and Gatsby, p. 106). In a El-Greco-like picture at the end of the novel "four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress" (p. 167). "On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it" (p. 171).

When Nick Caraway visited the Buchanans he met two young women, of course Daisy and Jordan "They were both in white" (p. 13). Even the windows at Daisy's house are white "The windows were ajar and gleaming white" (p. 13). "His heart beat faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own" (p. 107). White Associated with Daisy. She wears white clothing and has a white car.

Primarily for life or hope Green This green light is across the sea where Buchanan's house is supposed to be. Gatsby said: "»You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock«" (p. 90); "Now it was again a green light on a dock" (p. 90);” ...when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock" (p. 171); "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us" (p. 171). Later the whole water between Gatsby and Daisy gets green "On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat,.." (p. 112). Only once Fitzgerald used green for envy: "In the sunlight his face was green" (George Wilson, p. 117). Primarily for life or hope

Grey neutral dull not important "grey little villages in France" (p. 48); "The grey windows disappeared" (at Gatsby's house, p. 91); "... a grey, florid man with a hard, empty face" (p. 97) The Wilsons, living in the valley of ashes, appear in grey, except for Myrtle, when she enjoys the company of Tom Buchanan. Wilson "mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity – except his wife, who moved close to Tom" (p. 28).

Blue Depression Unhappiness Tranquility Gatsby’s inner self Although a lot of people are in and around his house, his gardens (plural!) are blue. "... ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves" (p. 144) " ... a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn't far off. About five o'clock it was blue enough outside to snap off the light" (p. 151). The most unhappy place is the graveyard: "He had come a long way to this blue lawn" (p. 171). Blue Depression Unhappiness Tranquility Gatsby’s inner self

Red Love Rage Violence Death The inside of Buchanan's home is in red. "We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space" (p. 13); "Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light" (p. 22).

Light Hope / Life / Dreams Gatsby desires the light at the end of the dock Gatsby is reintroduced to Daisy on a dewy bright morning.

Dark colors are the realities of Gatsby's dream-like life. The Valley of Ashes is the stark opposition to East and West Egg All of Gatsby's parties are held at night and are bright with a false light. Dark Dark colors are the realities of Gatsby's dream-like life.