The Color White In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was a novel written on the idea of the
American Dream. This book was published in 1925 during the peak of the Roaring 20s.
This book is based around a man known as Jay Gatsby, and his daft attempt to win back the heart of his old lover, Daisy Buchanan. Throughout the book, the author uses the color white to describe people, places, and things. But there is a deeper message hidden behind the denotation of the word white. White is much more than just a color, it is used to symbolize purity, innocence, and corruption.
Throughout the book, the author composes the color white as if it is more than just the literal meaning. Of course many people, when they hear the color white, think of pureness, light, and

In Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby, the author writes,
“She was dressed in white and had a little white roadster” (Fitzgerald 79). When Daisy was younger she often wore the color white. This displays the innocence that Daisy used to have as a child. At this point in her life, she was not concerned about wealth and materialism. In fact she was in love with Gatsby who barely had anything at that point in his life. In addition to that, Fitzgerald writes, “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” (8). Again, this explains how Daisy stills wears white in her older years, as if she is trying to hold onto her last shred of innocence. When in fact, she is the farthest past innocence. In conclusion, the color white is something must more rooted throughout the book as a symbol of purity.
Secondly, Fitzgerald portrays the hue as a token of innocence, and often times when people look upon the color white, they think of innocence, but yet again, Fitzgerald expands the literal explanation into something much deeper. The author evokes the readers to think of innocence when they hear the word white. In this example, “A