When you read a book, you should be transported to a world that you can both relate to, but also learn from. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, you are effectively transported to the early 20th century. You see a lot of things that people living in 1922 would have gone through as well as things that still relate to today. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald shows you many images to effectively convey and highlight his themes of innocence and loss of innocence, differences between social classes, and the American dream. One of the main ideas shown by Fitzgerald was the innocence of a character and his losing his innocence. We begin to see the innocence of the characters at the beginning of the book, and as the book progresses, they begin to evolve into more experienced and corrupt characters. Daisy was one of the biggest changes in this regard throughout the book. At the beginning of the book, Daisy's house is presented with the color white, for example on Daisy's house, even the windows are painted white. “The windows were half-open and gleaming white” (p. 7). Then, as soon as Nick meets Daisy and Jordan, the color white reappears: “They were both in white” (p. 7). Daisy later describes her childhood as a "white childhood", which shows us that white represents innocence, as 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 "when she was young and her artificial world evoked orchids, pleasant, joyful snobbery and the orchestras that punctuated the year, summarizing the sadness and the suggestive side of life in new tunes. All night long, saxophones blared the desperate commentary of Beale Street Blues as a hundred...... middle of paper...... gastric future from year to year recedes before us. It escaped us then, but it doesn't matter: tomorrow we will run faster, we will stretch our arms wider. . . . And then one fine morning... So we continued our journey, boats against the current, constantly taken back into the past. In this quote So we move forward, boats against the current, constantly brought back into the past. (p.115). In this quote, Fitzgerald tells us that even when the dreams of your past have shifted to humanity as a whole, it will look back. Because F. Scott Fitzgerald used such powerful imagery to depict his themes of innocence and the loss of innocence, class differences and the American dream were able to transport us to the 1920s With each color description to help us understand the mood and tone of the book, our minds were able to feel what we were reading...