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The yacht represented wealth and success, as did the man on the yacht, Dan Cody. Growing up poor and unhappy, this extravagant yacht seemed like the ultimate dream for Gatsby. Gatsby's station wagon is "like a brisk yellow bug" and his showy car is yellow at the party there are two girls in twin yellow dresses Gatsby wears a gold-coloured tie to meet Daisy. The Yacht: To the young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, the yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world. Yellow and gold are associated with money and might be seen to symbolise materialism and its destructive nature.
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He ends up renting a house on Long Island in the less glamours part, the West Egg. He begins by talking about the summer of 1922 when he moves to New York to work in the bond business. His name is Nick and he is from the Midwest. White has connotations of purity and innocence, and the use of this colour in connection with Daisy relates to Gatsby's idealised view of her, although she is not as innocent and pure as he thinks she is. Summary: Chapter 1 begins with the reader being introduced to the narrator.
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At the age of eighteen she was "dressed in white, and had a little white roadster". White is frequently mentioned in descriptions of Daisy. The hopelessness of the valley of ashes described in chapter two is emphasised by the predominance of grey. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. End of chapter 8 - Nick states that a rose is grotesque, this is symbolic of Gatsby falling for the grotesque Daisy - Nick claims that people chose to instill the rose as beautiful, not because they actually are, and this can be linked to Gatsbys feelings towards Daisy, as ultimately she is desperate for wealth, and had Gatsby not treasured. In addition to green representing hope and vitality, other repeated references to colours have symbolic significance. Professor Tony Bowers from the College of DuPage explains the symbols in F. Green also has connotations of life, growth and fertility, as in the Dutch sailors' discovery of the "fresh, green breast of the new world", suggesting that hopes and dreams for the future are necessary for life.