After World War I, America held out much promise in terms of financial and social opportunities for anyone willing to take risks for the "dream American". However, for some, achieving these dreams or aspirations has done nothing more than deprive them of any real sense of pleasure; their only goal was to get rich quick. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism as a notable tool to demonstrate thematic and character progression. It is no coincidence that when they are first introduced to the reader in the first scene, Daisy and Jordan were wearing white dresses. This scene plays an important role because it is where most of the color symbolism originates. In the same scene, Nick tells us that “the only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous sofa on which two young women were supported as if on a tethered balloon. They were both dressed in white, and their clothes rippled and fluttered as if they had just been brought back after a short flight around the house.” White is generally associated with purity, and is used intentionally so early on, to emphasize the irony between Daisy and Jordan's plausible purity and their actual corruption. However, the color white in this early stage is used to represent a sense of buoyancy or floating above. As we progress through the novel, Gatsby states that “the rock of the world was founded firmly on a fairy's wing.” Daisy and Jordan seemed to take flight because they are unreal, just like fairies are; and they are in white because, as we learn later, to wear white is to be “an absolute little dream,” something as false as Daisy and Jordan. White Daisy embodies what Gatsby seeks to embrace. However, Gatsby knows that the white or... in the center of the card... lies the scalloped ocean and the many blessed islands." Gatsby begins his climb to greatness when Dan Cody brings him to Duluth and purchases him for Gatsby "a blue coat, six pairs of white trousers and a yachting cap is used, because it symbolizes the promise and dream that Gatsby is trying to achieve. The color red is shown most significantly when Nick tells us that he." "I bought a dozen volumes on banking, credit, and investment securities, and they sat on my shelf in red and gold like new money right out of the mint, promising to reveal the shining secrets that Midas, Morgan and Maecenas knew that they used the color red." along with colors such as yellow and white to illustrate a close resemblance between colors to represent the ugliness of reality. Works Cited Fitzgerald, Scott The Great Gatsby New York: Scribner, 2004.