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What Does The White Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald is a novelist in twenty to thirty of the USA. The great Gatsby is the most outstanding work of Fitzgerald, both in thought and in literature and art. The novel depicts the tragic story of a young man, Gatsby who from the lower class of western United States, dreams to obtain the true happiness and love through personal struggle. But in the end he was abandoned by the rich girl. Fitzgerald uses a lot of symbolism in the works successfully, it has become a symbol of the work, the readers deeply understand the character and also enhance the shock and artistic expression of the theme of the novel. Color words are an indispensable part of every language. There are rich color words in English culture. The color will be in constant …show more content…

Gatsby and Nick was invited to Daisy's guest, see Jordan and Daisy lay together in a huge Changsha chair, dressed white, too. When Daisy was invited to Nick and Gatsby, she also dressed in white, driving a white convertible. White appears repeatedly on Daisy, and it has a unique significance. White is generally regarded as the symbol of purity, but for Daisy, there are multiple symbolic meanings. On the surface, the white represents purity and beauty, but in fact, it is a cold color, which represents the cold, cold, and impulse. White symbolizes Daisy's shallow, stupid and irresponsible. The image of her vanity, her ignorance, her indifference, her selfishness and cruelty are exposed in front of the reader, and these are the root of the tragedy of Gatsby. In fact, Daisy's life actually is a symbol of the American dream, not only on behalf of the Gatsby's pursuit, but also on behalf of the whole appearance of the "Jazz Age" society, and the hypocrisy of bourgeois values and moral standards. It is this illusion of the so-called American dream to make all the young people who pursuit is blind, such as Gatsby

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