Nick describes the “white palaces of the fashionable East Egg glittering along the water” and Daisy and Jordan’s white dresses. Normally, white is a sign of purity and innocence, but here it means the opposite. The Buchanans’ mansion is a “cheerful red and white” which is ironic because of Tom’s unfaithfulness to Daisy. Pastel colours such as the “rosy coloured space” represent the fairytale lifestyle the Buchanans lead, in which that have little to no work to do, so games become increasingly important. The colour green, first introduced as the light at the end of the dock, is significant because of its connection to Daisy. Green is typically associated with spring, new growth, new life and money, which is exactly what we later learn Gatsby is trying to achieve. He will do anything to please Daisy and win back her heart by starting a new life using all the money he obtained through dubious means. She turns out to be an unworthy dream, when the reader finds that she married Tom for money not for love and didn’t wait for Gatsby like she said she would. In the opening chapter, Fitzgerald foregrounds the use of colour as important in representing different qualities of
Nick describes the “white palaces of the fashionable East Egg glittering along the water” and Daisy and Jordan’s white dresses. Normally, white is a sign of purity and innocence, but here it means the opposite. The Buchanans’ mansion is a “cheerful red and white” which is ironic because of Tom’s unfaithfulness to Daisy. Pastel colours such as the “rosy coloured space” represent the fairytale lifestyle the Buchanans lead, in which that have little to no work to do, so games become increasingly important. The colour green, first introduced as the light at the end of the dock, is significant because of its connection to Daisy. Green is typically associated with spring, new growth, new life and money, which is exactly what we later learn Gatsby is trying to achieve. He will do anything to please Daisy and win back her heart by starting a new life using all the money he obtained through dubious means. She turns out to be an unworthy dream, when the reader finds that she married Tom for money not for love and didn’t wait for Gatsby like she said she would. In the opening chapter, Fitzgerald foregrounds the use of colour as important in representing different qualities of