Throughout the book, “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A lot of colors are used to symbolize personalities, places or even foreshadowing. The colors chosen were white, yellow and red. They can have different meanings but in the book they are known for: purity, decay and blood.
The author of The Great Gatsby uses the color white to represent purity and innocence. “She dressed in white and had a little white roadster, and all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from camp taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night” (74) When Gatsby had seen Daisy in white, he knew she was pure. He had been the one to take away