| Woman in the white dress
Connections to Other Parts of the Story |
| The word white appears often throughout the entire story of The Great Gatsby. It has a lot of symbolic meaning for the story, but I want to focus on the woman in the white dress. I find that this woman in the white dress may represent Daisy. There are several reasons for this. First she is wearing white, not a reason in itself, but often many connections to important parts of the book involving Daisy have her wearing white. One of these such occurrences are the argument and car accident of Chapter 7. Fitzgerald describes Daisy on page122, near the top, as wearing a white dress, obviously she wears this around that day during her argument with Tom and afterwards in the accident when she hits Myrtle with Gatsby's car. Another such occurrence that seems to be key is when Daisy gets married to Tom. She may or may not have been wearing white, but I am making an inference that she was because most brides wear white at their wedding. The reason that I chose this part of the story is that the woman in the scene is drunk, and so was Daisy before the wedding. Another reason that I find that this may be Daisy is that the woman is wearing elegant jewelry on her hands. This is another connection to the time when Daisy got married, because beforehand Tom gave her a very magnificent pearl necklace before the wedding. The only thing that keeps me from confidently saying that this woman represents Daisy is the fact that no one knows her name and no one cares. This is quite the opposite with Daisy, she seems to be the character that all the events in the book are centered around. Everyone wants to be with her, well just Tom and Gatsby really. |
-Chris Ausdenmoore