Somewhere Over the Rainbow:The Symbolism of Colors in The Great Gatsby
F.Scott.Fitzgerald was one of the greatest American writers of the 1920s.He is regarded as the spokesman of the “Jazz Age.His best achievement,The Great Gatsby,has been called the “Great American Novel.Through his great perception and extraordinary artistic skills,this novel has vividly portrayed the mental world of post-war Americans,the decadent morality and the disillusionment of the American Dream.Symbolism is an invaluable literary tool employed by the author in this novel.Colors are used in a large scale: green,blue,red,white,yellow and gold,brown,gray,pink and so on.They are just like a rainbow,colorful but transient.This paper explores the symbolic meanings of these colors,revealing how they contribute to the development of the theme of the work and characterization.
The Great Gatsby symbolism symbolic colors American dream
Xu Lihong Zhang Jing
School of Foreign Languages,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan,China
国际会议
吉林
英文
390-395
2018-06-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）