Not only does her name imply whiteness, she also wears white dresses (twice, alongside Jordan), drives a white roadster and comments on sharing her ‘white girlhood’ with Jordan. Many of the references to white are directly associated with Daisy. Each time when they are needing to impress others. Nick also makes a comment about Daisy in response to Gatsby’s observation that her voice is ‘full of money’: ‘High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl…’ Gatsby and Nick also wear white suits at different points in the text: Nick attending his first party at Gatsby’s, and Gatsby when he is meeting Daisy at Nick’s house. Nick describes the ‘white palaces of fashionable East Egg’, while the Buchanans’ house has French windows of ‘gleaming white’. One of its primary associations is with wealth. There are many references to the colour white in the novel. Wilson’s actions result in a chain of deaths and disillusion the green of the spring is replaced with the yellow of autumn and a sense of decay. Wilson’s face is described as ‘green’ and ‘physically sick’ with the shock of discovering his wife’s infidelity, indicating very clearly the negative impact of Myrtle’s romantic hopes and striving for wealth. In a human-being, green has less positive associations. Elsewhere, James Gatz is said to have worn a ‘torn green jersey’ when he encounters Dan Cody, and this is rapidly exchanged for a ‘blue coat, six pairs of white duck trousers, and a yachting cap’. Green here seems to be associated with economic wealth and exchange, even temptation and promise. the cards which Daisy says she is giving out to allow people to kiss her.the ‘fresh, green breast of the new world’.the apple-green shirts in Gatsby’s cabinets.Nevertheless, several other objects are identified as green in the novel: Given the emphasis on cars as symbols in this text, it seems plausible that the green light is a related image. It may be that Gatsby is encouraged by the colour because he associates it with the newly-implemented traffic light system in the 1920s whereby a green light meant ‘proceed if safe to do so’. He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Resources for studying The Great Gatsby.Feminist interpretations of The Great Gatsby.Critical Approaches to The Great Gatsby.The use of religious imagery in The Great Gatsby.The Great Gatsby: Imagery and symbolism.More on Fitzgerald’s use of song in Chapter 5.
The Great Gatsby: Synopses and commentary.
Artistic expression in the modern world.Religious / philosophical context of The Great Gatsby.
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