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Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming, discontented face. It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.~ ch. 3
But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby’s hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.~ ch. 4
The colour gray is usually associated with either sadness, or an area in between where things are even. In The Great Gatsy, the events are set in the 1920's, a time of prosperity for America. But during the 30's, life went downhill and everyone felt that they couldn't escape their despair.
The Great Gatsby The Colour Gray
At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.~ch. 7
It can be inferred that gray represents the upcoming Great Depression that follows the Roaring 20's. The Valley of Ashes is decribed as gray, gray everywhere. It's a place you can imagine to not be all too pleasent, even the name is unpleasent.
