Daisy's Use Of Color In The Great Gatsby

Innocence is the extinction of our time. The Great Gatsby is a masterpiece of the raging 1920’s. It covers pretty much anything that you could ever imagine to be in a great novel including: romance, sin, death, passion, and crime. This book has a lot of color symbolism, which in a literary sense means that authors use colors to help understand the characters and places around them in the story. My character is Daisy Buchanan, who is in love with Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. She is affiliated with the colors white, gold, and silver.

One of the three colors that represents Daisy is white. White is mentioned a few times in the book, it means purity, innocence, and goodness. In the beginning I definitely thought that Daisy was very childlike

Gatsby was pure as well but Daisy lost her purity to Gatsby, but he was a military man and he got called to serve in the war. Daisy was considered valuable and she was of ”goodness” and that made the males during that time really like her not including her looks and her charm according to Nick Carraway. The white dresses that was mentioned in the book ,”Daisy and Jordan are wearing white dresses again,” said from Nick, he continued to say that they were innocent. Personally I think the book definitely portrays Daisy as her being pure, innocent, and of goodness all on the outside but down deep she really isn’t of goodness entirely. If you think about it Daisy wouldn’t tell Tom about Gatsby because she didn’t want him to know mainly but she knew down deep she could never leave Tom for Gatsby because Tom’s money would never disappear because it was old money and Gatsby’s money wasn’t even truly his, it was tainted money. All the money Gatsby had was illegally “earned” and it could disappear at anytime if the higher authority became known of his “business”. All of this really just goes to show that Gatsby really would do anything to win over Daisy but truly if Daisy was as good and innocent as she is portrayed to the public then none of this would’ve even came about.

Daisy was wealthy prior, she had a silver spoon in her mouth. But Tom was in a league of his own when it came to money. One of the main reasons Daisy probably like Tom mainly is for his money. If you remember back in the earlier chapters when Jordan was telling Nick about how the night before they were supposed to get married and Daisy was crying profusely because she had gotten a letter from Gatsby and she was drunk on top of that. Jordan ended up putting her in the bath to try and calm her down. She then ended up getting upset because she cried so hard that it ruint the letter. Daisy has been confused since the very beginning of everything but I think she thought as time went on it would get easier since Gatsby wasn’t around. Then Gatsby shows up throwing his nice shirts around and his “wealth” and it confuses Daisy because she used to be in love with this guy and now he has all this money but yet she is married to Tom who she isn’t attracted to at all but has money. The difference is Tom is a security blanket for Daisy because she knows that he will never lose his money in their lifetime together, but Gatsby’s money is