I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face

I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby’s bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, Chapter 6. The color gray – echoing the valley of ashes theme – is used to portray Dan Cody as an empty man, who had all the wealth but no happiness.

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