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F. Scott Fitzgerald describes Nick Carraway’s first visit to Gatsby’s party as an extravagant, gaudy social meeting that creates feelings of liveliness and excitement in the reader by using visual imagery and hyperbole. The party is frequently described as very colorful. “And already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors...the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music...the seachange of faces and voices and color...” The author mentions color so often because of the mood and feelings it conveys. Colors create an image of liveliness and excitement because of the brightness and diversity of them. The author mentions yellow more than once when he states the gaudy primary colors and the yellow c