https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3 Made with the best of intentions en-us 2017-05-03 12:17:16 UTC 2026-03-16 13:30:13 UTC hello@padlet.com savannah_grigsby https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169657205 "Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans."   

In the book white symbolizes innocence; in this part of the book Fitzgerald is showing that Daisy and Jordan are innocent as they just sit there and making it seem as if they can do no wrong.  ]]> 2017-05-03 12:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169657205 holden_roberts https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169657211 "The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh cut grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house."

When Nick sees Gatsby's house the color white is used to describe Gatsby's house to make it seem more elaborate, bigger, and elegant.  ]]> 2017-05-03 12:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169657211 taylor_dixon https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169657529 "a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay."

Nick went over to see his cousin Daisy's house and the color white is used to describe it because it is in East Egg, old money. Most old homes are simple colors like white, they are white show purity and status.]]> 2017-05-03 12:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169657529 taylor_dixon https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169657886 "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 describes Daisy and Jordan both wearing white dress when Nick first meets them, to symbolize their purity to fool Nick. Nick. It makes a person who first meets them to think that they are pure, but in reality they are not.]]> 2017-05-03 12:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169657886 holden_roberts https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169665020 Fitzgerald used the motif white to describe women and houses to show that women during this time where thought of to be innocent and pure, and that the women during this time where meant to stay in the house. ]]> 2017-05-03 13:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/holden_roberts/212f789u7qs3/wish/169665020