This essay portrays the different colours that the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses to emphasize the different themes in the novel The Great Gatsby. The colours that are mainly used are silver, gold and brass and they are used to describe “old money” and inherited wealth. Another colour that is frequently used is white, which is used as a symbol for purity and innocence. The main character in the novel, Gatsby, is a man who displays all colours in hope of getting the woman he loves.