“Shows a “slender golden arm” (Fitzgerald 44) and “a golden shoulder” (Fitzgerald 77)” (Schneider). The gold associated with Jordan represents his success. Being a professional tennis player at that time was a big deal because women hadn't played sports for a long time, it was only for men. Another character who wears gold is Gatsby; on page 84 he wears “a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold tie” (Fitzgerald). Here the color also symbolizes success and money. The difference is that Gatsby wears gold and silver because he wants to appear successful even though he inherited his money and didn't earn it himself. He shows off with materialistic objects, such as his car. Gatsby's car is described as “a rich cream color” (Fitzgerald) at the beginning of the book. Cream is a combination of yellow and white. After Daisy runs over Myrtle, her husband's lover, in Gatsby's car, "a witness to the accident describes the car as simply yellow" (Seiters). White, representing purity, is taken out of the equation leaving behind yellow, immorality and sin,
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