1. Daisy and Myrtle in The Great Gatsby
... white; a colour with a lack of substance and integrity. This inconstancy shows when Daisy is secretly maltreated by her husband, Tom Buchanan. "'Look!' she complained; 'I hurt it.' We all looked – the knuckle was black and blue. 'You did it, Tom,' she said accusingly. 'I know you didn't mean to, you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a brute ... . It was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jungle of it, the cymbal's song of it High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl" (115). Daisy is one of the wealth...
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