Daisy Buchanon And The Color Red In The Great Gatsby

One of the major characters in The Great Gatsby is Daisy Buchanon, who could be best correlated with the color white. Daisy’s friend, Jordan Baker, reports Daisy as “dressed in white, and had a little white roadster (74)” during around the time she met Jay Gatsby. Jordan even accounts for Daisy spending time with Gatsby in her white roadster. The significance in this description calls toward the innocence associated with the color. Grok says white is “the color of the dove of peace, crispness, tidiness, innocence, moral purity, and cleanliness.” Before her marrying Tom, Daisy Fay could be well described with the color white, as she glows with innocence and even a naivety that will carry with her in the years to follow. During her

Fitzgerald uses this repeatedly in the description of their house to convey a deeper meaning that suggests deception and corruption in the relationship. In Nick Carraway’s entrance to their home at the beginning of the novel, he takes to notice the “deep, pungent roses” (7) and “bright, rosy-colored space” (7), as well as the “wine-colored rug” (8) and “rosy-colored porch” (11). Grok describes red symbolically as the “impulse towards active doing, towards sport, struggle, and competition.” The struggle and competition between Daisy and Tom is the known fact that Tom is cheating on Daisy, yet she will not address him about it. There is underlying tension and she will say and do things just to spite him and push his buttons. The “impulse towards active doing” is shown in Tom’s impulsive actions in making Nick go across town to meet his mistress, or even the sole fact that he has a mistress in the first

Gray is “an element of non-involvement or concealment,” as Grok depicts. His personal experiences with Daisy and Gatsby’s drama are rarely included, and his involvement with the characters, save his suggested affinity with Jordan Baker, is limited. As the story reaches its climax, with the afternoon spent in the city and the arguments between Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby, he speaks minimally. As Tom first begins to recognize the affair between Daisy and Gatsby, it is written that “Tom looked at [Nick] keenly, realizing that Jordan and [Nick] must have known all along” (121). Even the other characters call to Nick as their source for knowledge of the situations. While he creates a strong friendship with Gatsby and adores his cousin Daisy, Nick accounts for his friends with a distance that suggests his absence in the events recorded in the novel. He merely is there to document what has