A Short One...

I think that colors play a very specific and important part in The Great Gatsby. I believe that part of their main function is metaphorical of course. White usually stands for purity, which is very obvious and blue, I think stands for knowledge, wisdom or the realization of the way things really are. I also think that things in Gatsby are supposed to seem almost unreal or picturesque, which is where the vivid and constant color words come in. Certain scenes are intentionally very real and believable but like The House of Mirth some scenes seem to be set up almost as pictures or portraits.