Daisy watched him and laughed, her sweet, exciting laugh…” (Fitzgerald 123). The color red symbolizes the love and passion he has for Daisy. While was on the “crimson” carpet, he watched Daisy with fascinated eyes. It shows that he loves Daisy and the way he looks at her is with “fascinated” eyes, he’s passionate about her. “A tall, red haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song. She had drunk a quantity of hapage and during the course of her song she has decided ineptly that everything was very very sad- she was not only singing, she was weeping too” (fitzgerald 56). The quote is giving Gatsby that danger is to come and that he’s not going to be very happy.
In the book the The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, makes the character Gatsby symbolize the colors yellow (for caution), Red (for love, passion, and danger), and green (for growth). He is cautioning us by trying to make us foresee the danger that’s to come because of the love and passion he has for Daisy and Growth. I told how the author used color to tell a story. In the end, it was a bit ironic that it was Gatsby’s own growth that got him the car where his “love” got him killed in a way. It was Gatsby's love that killed