The Color White In The Great Gatsby

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The color white is commonly used to represent innocence and purity, but Fitzgerald’s use of it throughout the book is almost ironic. In some ways, it symbolizes the facade put on by characters such as Daisy, who seem innocent but are morally corrupt. At the beginning of the novel, white is used in reference to Daisy and Jordan’s dresses and “their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.” (Fitzgerald 15) Which already indicates Daisy’s future detachment from Gatsby, when she is not present as his funeral, leaving her connection with him behind. White is used a multitude of times to describe Daisy and her household, the windows “gleaming white against the fresh grass outside,” (Fitzgerald 10) which leaves more evidence that white mirrors