F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes rich colours to emphasize the imagery and visualization within the reader’s mind but more importantly, he articulates colour correspondence with individual characters as an allusive way to exemplify the inner qualities of their solitary names and actions. In this case, white is commonly used throughout Fitzgerald’s story and appears several times. The use of this colour emphases that innocence and purity is deceiving and hides the truth amongst these wealthy people. Within this novel, it is indicated that that white represents Daisy’s innocence and her untroubled self; how white is not as innocent as it seems and how it can be represented by Tom as a racist gesture. By examining these issues throughout the novel
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The first thig Nick mentions when he sees Daisy in East egg for the first time is that she is wearing a white dress, “The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous coach on which two young women were buoyed up as though an anchored balloon. They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house” (Fitzgerald 12). This colour is related to Daisy, it is “her” colour. Daisy’s clothes are always white, her car is white, she even speaks about her white childhood. “The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house. She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster, and all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night” (Fitzgerald 79). White represents Daisy’s her purity, her innocence and her untroubled …show more content…
When Gatsby takes Nick for a ride in his car speeding from West egg into New York City, he is stopped by a police officer. Gatsby hears, “a familiar “jug-jug-spat!” of a motor cycle, and a frantic policeman rode alongside” (Fitzgerald 72). Gatsby acts fast, “taking a white card from his wallet he waved it before the man’s eyes” (Fitzgerald 72). The officer immediately excuses himself. At first, Gatsby makes Nick believe, “I was able to do the commissioner a favor once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year” (Fitzgerald 73). But later we learn that Gatsby had bribed the officer. In this case, the colour white represents corruption. Gatsby has been earning his money in shameless ways. This scene proves that the law is on it too, meaning that no one in the novel is above moral
The first thig Nick mentions when he sees Daisy in East egg for the first time is that she is wearing a white dress, “The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous coach on which two young women were buoyed up as though an anchored balloon. They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house” (Fitzgerald 12). This colour is related to Daisy, it is “her” colour. Daisy’s clothes are always white, her car is white, she even speaks about her white childhood. “The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house. She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster, and all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night” (Fitzgerald 79). White represents Daisy’s her purity, her innocence and her untroubled …show more content…
When Gatsby takes Nick for a ride in his car speeding from West egg into New York City, he is stopped by a police officer. Gatsby hears, “a familiar “jug-jug-spat!” of a motor cycle, and a frantic policeman rode alongside” (Fitzgerald 72). Gatsby acts fast, “taking a white card from his wallet he waved it before the man’s eyes” (Fitzgerald 72). The officer immediately excuses himself. At first, Gatsby makes Nick believe, “I was able to do the commissioner a favor once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year” (Fitzgerald 73). But later we learn that Gatsby had bribed the officer. In this case, the colour white represents corruption. Gatsby has been earning his money in shameless ways. This scene proves that the law is on it too, meaning that no one in the novel is above moral