Fitzgerald uses color and light and dark as symbolically as possible.
If you make it all the way to the end of the book, you discover that Wilson believes a crime has been committed which hurts him. He's right. Someone is having an affair with his wife... he just doesn't know who.
The white ashen dust covering his dark suit represents the innocence covering his sin. His innocence is that something or someone else is wronging him. Another truth is that he isn't providing his best for his wife and he eventually commits a severe crime because of how he can't provide anything all that good for his wife.
So he is evil on the inside, but doesn't want to be. He wishes to be a good man. Not knowing where you are in the book, I don't want to give too much away.
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