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... , transitioning from white dresses to yellow ones. Yellow also describes Myrtle as she desperately seeks a higher position in society. At the party, Myrtle's dress is described by Nick as "cream colored" (35), and "with the influence of the dress, her personality had also undergone a change" (35). With the wearing of the yellowish dress, Myrtle's whole being morphs ... ...
... car."" "It's pretty, isn't it, old sport?" He jumped off to give me a better view. "Haven't you ever seen it before?" "I'd seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that ... ...
... on airs trying very hard to break into the upper class. For example in the train station drug store, Myrtle buys a copy of "Town Tattle", a magazine featuring celebrities, some cold cream, and a flask of perfume because she believes this is how the rich act. The reality is that the rich would most likely spend their money in an expensive department store ... ...
... image. An example of this is from an excerpt from a paper written by Scott Donaldson. "Myrtle buys a copy of the gossip magazine Town Tattle at the newsstand and some cold cream and a small flask of perfume from the drug store's cosmetics counter. Next she exercises her discrimination by letting several taxicabs go by before selecting a lavender-colored one-not quite a circus ... ...
