Similarly, Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter use the color white to characterize Daisy Buchanan as that of a pure woman of society and the act of Holy matrimony in Puritan society, the effect of which is to relate to themes such as the values of Godly Puritan Society and impossible love. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy, is characterised in multiple chapters as wearing white clothes, being of a pale white complexion and owning white possessions such as a white car and house. Unlike Daisy, Hester is symbolic of darkness as a result of the sin she committed with Dimmesdale, and there is a strong sense of irony when Prynne was “called in aid to embroider the white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride”
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The irony adds to the theme of Godly Puritan society and how their values are of very religious nature, and allows the audience to clearly define what is good and bad morally in their society. Fitzgerald, however, uses colors to describe Gatsby such as green, gold and even had piles of colorful shirts "in many colored disarray ... in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of indian blue"(89 Fitzgerald). In using the juxtaposition of the pure white and the multi colored dress and life that Gatsby leads, the audience further realises the impossibility of Gatsby and Daisy’s love as they stand for extremely different things. While daisy is pure and morally clean, Gatsby is not honest, but a greedy man for Daisy and his shifted morals, that ultimately clash with Daisy’s, which are pure-further symbolising her white clothes, house and complexion and the idea that his love for Daisy will never be
The irony adds to the theme of Godly Puritan society and how their values are of very religious nature, and allows the audience to clearly define what is good and bad morally in their society. Fitzgerald, however, uses colors to describe Gatsby such as green, gold and even had piles of colorful shirts "in many colored disarray ... in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of indian blue"(89 Fitzgerald). In using the juxtaposition of the pure white and the multi colored dress and life that Gatsby leads, the audience further realises the impossibility of Gatsby and Daisy’s love as they stand for extremely different things. While daisy is pure and morally clean, Gatsby is not honest, but a greedy man for Daisy and his shifted morals, that ultimately clash with Daisy’s, which are pure-further symbolising her white clothes, house and complexion and the idea that his love for Daisy will never be