The Color White

Descriptions in this book are very common. One description that we see very often in this book is of things that are white. One place where we see the color white is in this passage, where we read that a drunken woman is wearing a white evening dress. Other pages on which we see white dresses are on pgs. 12, 122, 123, 185. Since Daisy is often depicted wearing a white dress, the woman in our passage may refer to Daisy, and the drunken part referring to Daisy’s wedding.

We seem to see the color white in places other than people’s dresses too. Other place we see it is on the sidewalk (pg. 117) and in the snow (pgs. 81, 184).

White seems to be a consistent color in this book and seems to be used to draw attention to certain things. For example, women, including Daisy, are often depicted wearing white in one way or another. These women are often characters that are important at the moment in which they are dressed in white. In the case of the sidewalk and the snow where white is used, attention is drawn to them because they are important background characteristics at that time. Fitzgerald uses color in many interesting ways to describe things and his use of white is one of those interesting ways.

*Laura*