The Island Belonging

A very important motif in this passage is the color white. Nick states white in two different meanings, at the beginning of the passage ?white? is used to reflect elegance and purity but as Nick spends more time the ?white? in the house he learns that the color symbolizes the stereotypical façade that every character is hiding behind, a dull, vacuous, and bland guise. Fitzgerald uses white to express the many personalities, such as those of Daisy and Jordan. Interestingly, the white appearance would imply purity and innocence, which are, unfortunately, words that can not be remotely associated with either one. They can?t be associated with Daisy and Jordan because they both are the exact opposite of purity and innocence. Daisy is purely corrupted by money and society, her ?absurd, charming little laugh? (13) connotes her fakeness. Nick views Jordan as an arrogant and proud woman, he sees her as someone who?s trying to exude her independence, however she seems insubstantial. When describing Daisy, Nick uses the word ?bright? (13-14) repetitively to suggest her flashy personality, like Tom she too has an aura around her that make people, especially men, drawn towards her- almost like a siren.

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses white to portray innocence and class. This color is used several times while talking about Daisy. “She dressed in white and had a little white roadster” (Fitzgerald 4.74). This quote is used to convey Daisy during the innocence of her youth. The color white is pure and conveys her innocence.

There are people who believe themselves to be pure and honest, while on the inside they truly obtain none of those qualities. The color white has always been associated with goodness and innocence; it’s usually the color one would think of when imagining an angel or the heavens. However, Fitzgerald uses this connotation with white in an ironic sense by using it to describe some of the most corrupt and none innocent people in the story. As Daniel J. Schneider states in his article on color symbolism in The Great Gatsby “White traditionally symbolizes purity, and there is no doubt that Fitzgerald wants to underscore the ironic disparity between the ostensible purity of Daisy and Jordan and their actual corruption.” Throughout the entire story, Fitzgerald is

In general, the color white symbolizes innocence, purity, and cleanliness. In the novel, the color white is closely associated with Daisy. “White, even after one excludes near-synonyms such as silver, makes more appearances in the novel than any other single color, and something like three of every four are applied to East Egg or characters from East Egg, especially to Daisy” (Elmore 428). This quote proves that the color white contributes to a major theme in the novel. Daisy wears white to show her innocence. The first time Nick sees Daisy and Jordan, they are both wearing white. Nick describes seeing the women in the quote, “They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house” (Fitzgerald 8). It was the women, so magical and light, like birds or butterflies that flew around the house. They could fly, but they didn't fly far, only around the house which they got blown back into. These women don't have much ambition or power on their own. They are housebound, even though they can fly. In the beginning of the novel, the reader believes Daisy is innocent. Even her name Daisy is a kind of white flower. When introduced to her for the first time, people feel that she is pure, flawless, and noble. This is one of the reasons Gatsby is infatuated with her throughout his life and regards her as a pure beauty. The

While the color white is usually used to represent purity and innocence, Fitzgerald uses this color to represent corruption and falsely perceived purity. Upon first meeting the character Wilson, he is described as having “A white ashen dust veil[ing] his dark suit and his pale hair…” (Fitzgerald 26). Wilson, for much of

White describes a falseness of purity of something that is deceiving. This is shown in the beginning of the novel when the brazen Jordan Baker and Daisy Buchanan are both introduced to Nick Carraway. “...that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire” (Fitzgerald 12). This quote includes the color white to describe their dresses, meaning that these two girls--Jordan and Daisy--are not what they seem to be. Another quote is when they are at Gatsby’s florid house, and Nick is leaving. “Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into

White symbolizes a disguise; it is seen as the colour of purity and innocence. Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker are seen wearing white and are associated with the colour white the most. Wearing white, Daisy is seen as an innocent and youthful woman. Often enough it seems as though she uses this innocence as a way to act childish, irresponsibly and care-free. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together…” (Fitzgerald 187). Daisy lets everyone believe that she does not know better than the way she is act, when in reality she is hiding her true snobbish and conceited image inside this fairytale image that she portrays. Daisy knows what her actions mean, however she acts care-free about it and knows that nothing can happen to her because her husband’s wealth protects her from being dislike. The day of her daughter’s birth, Daisy said, “All right...I'm glad it's

Another character that hides behind the white symbolic veneer is Jordan Baker, who happens to wear white ala Daisy. She acts as though she is superior to everyone around her; posture, attitude, and even the things she says imply this arrogance: "She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless and with her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall. If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it-indeed I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in" (13). She portrays a bored and apathetic attitude about everything, which is part of her "exalted" appearance. In reality, she just

“They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blow back in after a short flight around the house (p12). Daisy is often surrounded by white or is wearing white, which would indicate that she pure, but in fact, she is not innocent at all. Jordan Baker who is also characterized with the color white is portrayed as being angelic childlike, when she really was very dishonest.

White can be used to show the innocence of Daisy’s youth. To add on, the reader learns how Daisy is wealth and how that may connect to how she acts. She is narrated as, “High in a white palace

Daisy for example wears white that symbolizes innocence and carefree but in reality she’s stressed and corrupted. Her clothes represent the difference in perception and the reality of old money. Daisy’s life is the imitation and solitude that uncovers for the audience the reality of the 1920s. In comparison to Daisy, her husband, Tom, lives a double life that people to seem to know about but no one questions him due to the fact that Tom is wealthy and powerful that kind of makes him untouchable considering the fact that people like Wilson have no connection or money to uncover Tom’s mendacious. The West is represented as undignified and moral less seeing as they are the kind of people that only get married of money just like Daisy did with

Especially black and white, colors were consistently represented throughout the novel. For example, the paint factory dialogue and description included many turn-of-phrases involving the colors black and white. During the scene involving the narrator being shown around the factory, the narrator says of doing a task, “But when I looked into the white graduate I hesitated; the liquid inside was dead black. Was he trying to kid me?” (154).

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the color white is used to symbolize Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is a character who is known as naive and innocent, two words that are also used to symbolize the color white. In the first and second quote, Daisy’s clothes are described as white. This symbolizes her dressed in innocence, but it could also be a distraction from her materialistic ways. She is very materialistic because of her money from her husband Tom, and the money and material items could be a distraction from the fact that Tom was cheating on Daisy, making her naive.

When Nick describes the Buchanan’s home he uses white a lot. In literature, white are often used for goodness and relaxing. And the purpose of the language he uses are all for creating the type of atmosphere. Nick describes parts of the room with white multiple times in the passage. “The windows were ajar and gleaming white,” Nick describes and he also mentions “the frosted wedding cake ceiling”. The appearance of the color white gives the scene a feeling of elegance and also a majestic quality. Nick also emphasizes the existence of

As the advancement of time, the concept of human cloning can become a reality as with the breakthrough of biotechnology. Human cloning can be defined in terms of formation of genetically same imprint of an individual. The child who produced from this process is a new category of human being that is a clone of a person who cloned himself. Many people think that it is not right to cloned human beings. People argued that it is wrong to create identical human being, and this argument is dismissed by stating various other arguments in the favor of human cloning such as there is nothing wrong if monozygotic twins exist, and clone is not the identical copy of the original human being even in those situations where clone is exact genetic copy because those clones are developed in a completely different environment. In this paper, I will discuss the life in shadow argument as well as arguments opponent to it. In addition, I will discuss the ethical considerations of human reproductive cloning regarding this