The “death car,” as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend.
“death car”, this story is full of surprises and deep meanings.
Okay so I need to talk about this, in short, Gatsby’s car colour was yellow, and it was not a coincidence, it is yet another symbol in the story. You see, every colour represented something.
Like in this part, Fitzgerald used Yellow/Gold, and it used to be (or maybe still) a colour of wealth (represented wealth) in many cultures, which means the car represented Gatsby wealth (new money), status and materialism. The car represented Gatsby himself and his status in the society.
So in the story, Daisy leads to Gatsby’s unfortunate event, so this colour also here indicated the failure of the American dream, “death car” here indicated The failure of Gatsby's dreams.
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The book also had a line that refers to Daisy as a golden girl. I googled for this and I found this! In this part, yellow also symbolizes luxuriousness, greed and cowardice. Awesome right?
