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“Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water…” pg 5

The color white, just as in Moby Dick, has a very significant meaning in The Great Gatsby. The houses, owned by people who have too much money to possibly spend in their lifetimes, are all glittery white. They are houses that to almost any person in the world would be unattainable in even ones wildest dreams, and yet these people own them as if they were clothes. As the narrator, Nick, says, his neighbor Mr. Gatsby owns 40 acres of land in one of the most expensive and prominent places in America. Similarly, Daisy Buchanan is a white blond woman who was wearing a small white dress. Though these people seem to have attained the unattainable on the outside, in reality, they have many more problems then one would think. It seems that since Tom Buchanan has everything from polo horses to speedboats, he has started to go for a goal of just pure power. With power over his wife being easy, Tom turned to other women to suffice for this need. It is quite ironic that these people with everything and more actually have nothing.