When you read a book you should be transported to a world that you can relate to but also learn from. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby you are actually transported to the beginning of the 20th century. You see many things that people living in 1922 would have faced, as well as things that are still recognizable today. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald displays many images to effectively convey and highlight his themes of innocence and loss of innocence, differences in social classes, and the American dream. One of the main ideas that Fitzgerald showed was a character's innocence and their losing their innocence. We begin to see the character's innocence at the beginning of the book and as the book progresses he begins to evolve into more experienced and corrupt characters. Daisy was one of the biggest changes in this regard in the book. At the beginning of the book, Daisy's house is presented with white color, for example in Daisy's house even the windows are painted white. “The windows were ajar and shining white” (p. 7). Then, as soon as Nick meets Daisy and Jordan, the color white is introduced again: “They were both dressed in white” (p. 7). Daisy later describes her childhood as “white childhood”, this shows us that white represents innocence because childhood is the most innocent time in someone's life. Although by the end of the book Daisy has lost both her innocence and her pure white color, she is now “young and her artificial world smelled of orchids and a pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras that marked the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestion of life in new melodies. All night the saxophones moaned the desperate commentary of the Beale Street Blues as a unni... middle of paper......gastic future year after year recedes before us. It escaped us then, but it doesn't matter: tomorrow we will run faster, we will stretch our arms more. . . . And then one beautiful morning... So we continued rowing, boats against the current, pushed back incessantly into the past. In this quote So we continue to row, boats against the current, pushed back incessantly into the past. (page 115). In this quote Fitzgerald is telling us that even when the dreams of your past have shifted to humanity as a whole, you will look back. innocence, social class differences and the American dream we managed to transport ourselves to the 1920s. With the description of each color helping us understand the mood and tone of the book, our minds were able to feel what we were reading.