Gatsby post 2

Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses colors to show the purity of a certain character. Darker colors often show that a character may not be pure, and lighter colors show very honest, pure characters. On page 79, the protagonist is describing a scene from earlier in his life. He says, "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, by far the most popular of all of 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, 'anyways for an hour!'" This quote shows that nearly everything about Daisy is white. Her roadster is white, and all of her clothes are white. Her name is Daisy, a white flower. Fitzgerald went to every length that he could to insure that it was seen that Daisy is associated with the color white. Fitzgerald did so to show that Daisy is the purest, most honest character in the story. This is also shown later in the novel as Daisy confesses her feelings towards both Tom and Gatsby. Although it shows that Daisy isn't necesarrily pure because she has feelings for a man other than her husband, it shows that she has the honesty to confront her husband about it instead if hiding it and just cheating on him. The color white is used to show how honest and pure Daisy is.