Colorblind

I have a confession to make. I am an addict. Not to drugs or drinking. I am addicted to LOST.
In the LOST Season 5 finale, The Incident, two men are sitting on a beach. One, named Jacob, is wearing a white shirt. The other, who's name we aren't given, is wearing black. The Man In Black, as he is known to fans, and Jacob talk for a few minutes when the Man In Black says, "Do you have any idea how badly I want to kill you?" We instantly assume that he, therefore, is the evil one and Jacob, in all white, is good. Since we did not know the name of the Man In Black, some people turned to the Bible and assumed it was the story of Jacob and Esau. The writers of the show are tricker than that, however. They told us not to assume that white represents good. This holds true for The Great Gatsby as well. White is used several times through the novel but whether or not it represents good is left for the reader to determine.
The first mention of white is not actually outright but a subtle reoccurrence throughout the novel. The two areas where the inhabitants of the novel dwell are known as West Egg and East Egg. There are some pink eggs, but the majority are white. To say that they live in Insert-Direction-Here Egg implies that their homes are located on delicate, innocent plots. An egg is an object that is both fragile and pure, capable of both producing new life or sustaining that which is already alive. This does not reflect correctly upon the actuality of the neighborhoods. The Eggs are places of controversy where nothing pure goes on. Lavish parties, affairs, laziness, and even death occur in the neighborhoods in the span of two hundred pages. The Eggs are anything but fragile and pure.
The next big white reference is another that is not outright...Daisy. Daisy's name implies purity, innocence,and delicacy. The flower was something on which to dote, a gift to a loved one. Daisy the character is nothing of the sort. She left Gatsby for Tom because Tom had more money and security. When Gatsby comes back around, she flitters back to him. Daisy values security more than love, as she proved throughout the novel. The first time we meet Daisy, she is wearing white but she is already guilty.
Tom is the next to be obsessed with the color white. When Nick, Daisy, Jordan, and Tom are all talking, Tom becomes obsessed with telling all about a book he read. It "talked about the Nordic race" (pg 19). No matter how desperately Daisy tries to steer the conversation away, Tom brings it back to his racist agenda.
There were many more blatant references to the color white in this novel. I chose to take a road less travelled and explore the whites right in front of our eyes that are often overlooked. When we look too far into certain details, we forget to see the forest. This is what the writers of LOST have been telling all the avid fans. I, unfortunately, am in too deep to start looking at the bigger picture. I can't just sit back and enjoy...I have to know what the Man In Black's name really is.

Referrences
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jacob's_nemesis
http://www.lesekost.de/amlit/HHL252C.htm
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald