Regarding human nature in the jazz era in which he wrote, F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, would most likely agree with Jean-Jacques Rousseau's general philosophy on human psychology. In a nutshell, Rousseau's view was simply that man is naturally pure and free, only to be corrupted by society and the outside world. By connecting Fitzgerald's use of appropriate color symbolism to both parts of Rousseau's view, we can see how he (Fitzgerald) describes the nature of man in general terms through the story of Jay Gatsby. The colors primarily associated with Jay Gatsby throughout the book are white, yellow, and blue, which, in order, represent the progression of his mental state and outlook on life. One of the focal points of The Great Gatsby is the characterization of Daisy as pure and innocent, and also as Gatsby's goal in the book. When Nick, the narrator, goes to meet Daisy and her friend Jordan Baker at the beginning of the book, he notes the amount of white surrounding Daisy. When describing Daisy and Jordan, Nick says “They were both dressed in white” (Fitzgerald 13). He even notes the smallest things around Daisy, like the windows of her house, which were also “half-open and gleaming white” (Fitzgerald 13). ). Much later, Gatsby himself describes her as one who lives "high in a white palace, the king's daughter, the golden girl", meaning that she is surrounded by purity (Fitzgerald 115). Although he takes one of the other views on Daisy's feasibility, such as saying that she is evasive or indecisive, Gatsby continues to believe that she is as pure as possible and makes it his goal to regain his relationship with Daisy. where it was in the past. This, middle of paper, users can see the end results of how the outside world, in its competition for monetary greatness, can ruin a man with good intentions. Reflecting on Gatsby's life, Rousseau's words resonate throughout. A simple man, with pure intentions, in search of a pure and happy life, ends up dying because of the world around him. Certainly he played a role in some of the discretionary aspects of his problems, such as his sense of money, Gatsby really serves as an example of how the real world can tarnish someone's inner joy and purity, and send him to a place worse than where he was. they started. The story of how Gatsby's life unfolded then testifies to Fitzgerald's view of the world in his time and his belief that a re-emphasis of Rousseau's teachings would benefit the audience of his book and their would show the non-fictional problems of the world. , even through a fictional medium.