“Dreams are renewable no matter what our age or condition, they are still untapped possibilities within us and now beauty waiting to be born.” -anonymous
This quote is portrayed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. The novel begins when the main character Nick Caraway moves to a town in long island call west egg. He lives in modest home amongst extravagant mansions. His neighbor, Jay Gatsby, throws lavish parties almost every night. His cousin Daisy, and her husband tom, also lives in the west egg community. Once nick get an invite to one of Gatsby’s parties he become thirsted into the wealthy lifestyle of the people around him. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald used the colors of white and cream, the color yellow, and the green light to illustrate the theme that desire facilitates moral decay and is therefore a destructive emotion.

The colors white and cream capture the characters external innocence and purity, but since it is false beyond the skin, it is just a disguise covering the desire and moral decay. The white room shows how Daisy and Jordan can appear pure and lovely from the outside. When nick arrives at Daisy and Tom’s home he notices, “ The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house,”(8). At the start of the book we are introduced to Daisy and Jordan, the author used the white color of the room to illustrate how pure the characters appear from Nick’s first impression. It is a simple reminder of how people can fool one in the presence of their image. Myrtle changes into a cream colored dress, which signifies her infidelity. Once arrived at the apartment, “Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream-colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room,”