In the tragedy “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism to intensify the setting and characterization. The colors in the novel describe the characters and their reasoning behind the stuff they do. Specifically, Fitzgerald uses white, which symbolizes purity, innocence, corruption, and lacking the spirit to characterize people of the East Egg. East Egg is located on Long Island, and it is where people that were born wealthy live. Fitzgerald uses the color white to details the basic descriptions of each and their wealth true wealth into society. The color white is primarily representing Daisy, in which describes her path to remain innocent in the novel.
The first representation of how we see the color white used in the novel is how Daisy is dressed. “She was dressed in white and had a little white roadster” (79). Daisy has all the wealth and money she can want so all she wants is someone to love. Daisy shows this by being involved with Gatsby when he did not even have that much money to support even himself. The author is describing from Daisy’s clothes describes that Daisy uses to be pure and now it symbolizes that she is corrupted. When the relationship did not go well with Gatsby, Daisy then married Tom Buchanan. She married Tom to have a because of his wealth to have a better wealth. Daisy
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Gatsby gets out of any offenses by pulling out a white card to the officer. “Taking a white card out of his wallet he waved it before the man’s eyes” (72). The effect of Gatsby taking out his white card was that Gatsby did not get a ticket. The officer gave him a warning and promised to remember him. Gatsby had shown the officer a Christmas card that had received from the commissioner. The white card indicates that Gatsby displays himself as being above the law. The white Christmas card portrays Gatsby making it unethical to the rest of the