2007-01-16 10:15:41 · 6 answers · asked by musstoffa 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
In the begining of the story, Fitzgerald describes Daisy's dresses as white, as the story progresses, her dresses become cream then yellow. Yellow is also the color of the Rolls, that killed Myrtle. Daisy is "yellow" for not owning up to the death, allowing Gatsby to take the blame.
2007-01-16 10:40:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To add to the response by Wumpus.
Fitzgerald's use of colour symbolism is progessive rather than static. Daisy is pure, in white, as the ultimate object of Gatsby's American Dream, guided by the green docking light on the end of her jetty. As she becomes cream then yellow, the dream is polluted or tainted by money. Fitzgerald reflecting on the tainting of the original dream, as a quest for happiness, as it has become merely a desire for wealth.
2007-01-20 12:27:26 · answer #2 · answered by Paul H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fitzgerald uses colour motifs extensively throughout The Great Gatsby - white to suggest purity, green to symbolise the American dream, yellow as moral decay and ash as spiritual desolation. Daisy, the object of Gatsby's dream, is frequently associated with both white and green. Fitzgerald frequently describes her as dressed in white, with a powder face and a "white girlhood". In this context, white suggests cleanliness and moral purity - which is incongrous with the tainted reality of the established rich. Daisy is hollow and insubstantial - like a fairy as both her maiden name and descriptions attest - and prepared to choose the material security of Tom Buchanan over the somewhat empty love she has for Gatsby.
Daisy is also associated strongly with green, the colour Fitzgerald associates with the American Dream. The "green light on daisy's dock" is for Gatsby the object of his dream: the "star" by which he guided his efforts to achieve her.
2007-01-16 19:12:05 · answer #3 · answered by Wumpus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if Daisy was described as yellow, but Gatsby's car definitely was...it was gold, a symbol of money (gaudy "new" money at that) and materialism. And ultimately, it's what killed him in the end...
2007-01-16 18:36:22 · answer #4 · answered by aas_627 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am reading that book right now. I know it refers to her as being white but I don't remember anything about her being yellow.
2007-01-16 19:04:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-11-11 23:32:38 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋