In the novel The Great Gatsy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author, uses many symbols throughout the book. The book uses patterns and the scenes throughout the book have various connections to each other. The colors that he employs in the book, such as gray, can signify numerous things. One might say that it describes the polluted town illustrated in the book, while others can define the use of the color gray in a completely different way. Some consider that since the color gray is the shade between white and black it can be used to portray the difference between New York City and East Egg and West Egg. In the beginning of the novel (chapter 3) gray is used in the same sentence when Nick, the narrator, is describing Jordan’s qualities in a negative way. He sees in her that she has no plans for her life and also realizes that she has a mustache on her upper lip when she plays tennis.

“Her gray, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. I’d been writing letters once a week and signing them: “Love, Nick,” and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip."