【正文】 f the roaring twenties。 ending with the rise of the Great Depression, the traditional values of this age see a sharp decline while the great American stock market soars.‖ (Wikipedia: the Jazz age) F. Scot Fitzgerald uses a unique narration way to describe hero—Gatsby‘s life. As a narrator, Nick is tired of his hometown—Midwest life and es to New York. He rents a small apartment in the suburb of West Egg. He is Daisy‘s cousin, and neighbor of Gatsby who owns a luxurious mansion. Gatsby and Daisy once love each other when they are young, but end up with Gatsby‘s poverty. Then he joins World War I, and Daisy marries Tom Buchanan—a wealthy guy and they give birth to a daughter. Five years later, the Buchanan move from Chicago to the west, and Nick starts to have frequent contacts with the Buchanan。 during five years, Gatsby accumulates amounts of wealth by means of illegal activity and es to New York following Daisy. He buys a luxurious villa—Gatsby mansion. Each Saturday he would hold a grand party to attract the married Daisy, fancying arousing her notice and restart the relationship. On an accidental occasion, Gatsby learns that Nick is Daisy‘s cousin, so he begs Nick to arrange a meeting for them. After that date, both Daisy and Gatsby have frequent date. However, he gradually realizes that Daisy is vane and secular not as what she used to 本科畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)（論文） 2 be, Gatsby‘s beautiful dream finally breaks, but he still insists on her and has a glimmer of fantasy, which makes him suffer from a miserable oute in the end. Later, Daisy drives Gatsby‘s car to run over and kills Tom‘s mistress Myrtle Wilson after drunk driving, but Tom and Daisy put the blame on Gatsby with conspiracy brutally, resulting in Gatsby‘s death by Gee Wilson‘s gun shot. While Daisy and Tom travel to Europe, there are only two people—Nick and Gatsby‘s father to attend Gatsby‘s funeral. Gatsby bees a victim of selfish and cruel Daisy. F. Scott Fitzgerald describes a picture of tragic American dream with poetic language and ample colors. There are many symbols in the novel. Symbolism will be analyzed respectively from the following aspects: colors, protagonists and the American Dream will be mentioned. 本科畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)（論文） 3 2 Symbolism of Colors Among so many symbols in the novel, most of which are colors: white represents purity, innocence and emptiness, depravation。 during the process of describing Gatsby‘s dream, green night bees an important image, it means not only dream and hope, but also a bubble。 besides, yellow means wealth, status and evil, and so on. The following part will illustrate different colors thoroughly. Green Green is the color of nature, representing hope and dream. When he is seventeen, Gatsby wears a shabby green sweater, presenting an optimistic and hopeful image。 when he falls in love with Daisy deeply, however, Gatsby is too poor to marry her. Daisy immediately marries a millionaire –Tom Buchanan. So Gatsby struggles out from the bottom of society, though, he is not for a life of luxurious and material forts, but for the ―pure love‖, which is an ideal and indescribable romantic illusion, a permanent expectation for him. After Gatsby makes a fortune, he is still obsessed with his love—Daisy, he spares no effort to attract and pursue Daisy, since it is his only dream, in his mind, Daisy symbolizes all of what he dreams, in a word, Daisy is his hope, goals and incardination of love. And again at the end of the novel, it refers to green: ―Gatsby believes in the green night: the iastic future that year by year recedes before Man, it eludes Man then, but that‘s no matter—tomorrow Man will run faster, stretch out his arms farther…and one fine morn ing.‖ (Fitzgerald 20xx:113) here the symbolism of green night is American‘s enthusiastic and reckless pursuit for the illusory American Dream. In Gatsby‘s eyes, green night is his guide on the one hand, which makes him feel his dream is on the way and easy to grasp。 on the other hand, it is so attractive, twinkling, and vague. Finally, when his ultimate dream is lost, the green light that symbolizes hope disappears forever from him, which leads to the access to dream being a 本科畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)（論文） 4 dark journey. F. Scott Fitzgerald links it with Gatsby‘s blind pursuit for Daisy purposely, making the green light have an obvious irony. F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream is devastated by the excessive pursuit for materials, contributing to a futile effort. Green is Gatsby‘s hope, but it is his impractical pursuit for the green light that results in his tragedy. Yellow Yellow is a symbol of power, wealth and luxury. It is one of the most widely used colors in the novel. In order to regain his true love, Gatsby conveys abundant information all the time to Daisy: his geous and expensive car that he takes is yellow。 his tie that he wears while dating with Daisy is golden。 his cars, food, bars that he owns when he holds various, luxurious, grand, illuminated banquets, are all yellow。 his b that is shown to Daisy is also purely golden。 In addition, Daisy is regarded as the golden girl, her name is a kind of flower with the color of yellow 。 Jordan Baker has a withered golden hair, and his arms are golden。 two of girls in the banquets are with golden skirts。 it is the golden cocktail music that is played in the banquets all the time。 All of the yellow symbols represent a noisy, wealthy and moneyoriented atmosphere, it seems that everywhere in the society is full of the color of yellow. During the Jazz age, money is a symbol of success and status, people would rather desert their own moral conception and deceive each other without guilty just for money. In a word, yellow bees seductive and charming, while Gatsby‘s tragedy results in the golden lie, he struggles for the color a