Disillusion of American Dream——Analysis of Symbolic Meanings of Colors in The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's famous novel The Great Gatsby tells us a story about a young man named Gatsby who from thebottom of society,he tries to pursue love and happiness through struggle and hard-working,but finally the dream fails and he is mur-dered.In the novel Fitzgerald combines the symbol of colors with theme of the novel"the disillusion of American dream"tightly and wit-tingly creating an organic unity like nature itself.Via analyzing such writing skill,let readers have a better understanding of the essenceof American Dream and the luxurious and decadent living conditions and perplexed and blank mental states of the lost generations afterWWI.The Great Gatsby;