Fitzgerald utilizes many rhetorical strategies throughout his novel. Specific to the excerpt the rhetorical strategies metaphor and personification are found to be used to strengthen Fitzgerald’s key themes of dreams and reality. Ultimately though, the rhetorical strategies and themes contribute to creating the effect that Gatsby is truly above the average man and that Gatsby, at least to Nick, is some amazing creature that grew from his dreams. The first instance of personification to be used in the passage is in the line, “I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever: I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart” This use of personification has the effect of
Biblical allusion is amongst the most common types of allusion. Writers use this type of allusion to endorse emotional reactions from the readers. Two works that assimilate these allusions are The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Do these two stories and the imagery within them focus on a Christ-like savior of mankind or something other?
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the characters Gatsby and Daisy on pages 95-96 to prove that the American Dream is ultimately unattainable though diction, tone and figurative language. The final goal that Gatsby had left to do was to obtain Daisy and the passage that was selected was one of the pinnacle moments of Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship rekindling. It is important to note that Fitzgerald creates a tone that is not exactly too hopeful. The descriptions include words such as “ghostly heart, illusion, and doubt” which is placed to foreshadow that Gatsby will not obtain Daisy despite having moments such as this with her.
In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author uses many differnt retorical devices to add a personal flare to his work. He uses diction, symbolism, and irony to adress many different themes. These themes include Materialism, The American Dream, and includes a sharp and biting ridicule on American society in the 1920’s. The main point of Fitzgerald, arguement is one where he sharply criticizes the Society of the time.
The Great Gatsby Motifs and Themes In the book The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald has many of motifs to connect with a theme. As you read The Great Gatsby you will find a common theme of love. I am going to be explaining how the motif of parties connects with the theme of love. Throughout the book many parties are thrown in many different occasions.
While reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald there are numerous allusions. They can allude to real-life people and events that add depth to the story. One of the allusions is the reference to Gilda Gray, a famous dancer of the 1920s who is mentioned in a scene at one of Gatsby’s parties. This allusion should be looked into because of the importance and why the author added this detail to the novel. Gilda Gray was a Polish actress and dancer from the 1920s which is the same period The Great Gatsby was centered around.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the audience is introduced to Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan. These characters are the ones that the audience mainly follows as they navigate the issues of the story. Such as Gatsby’s infatuation with Daisy, Tom’s cheating on Daisy, Myrtle being killed, and Gatsby being killed. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Nick Carraway to prove hope vs. delusion. Gatsby proves hope vs. delusion mainly with his infatuation with Daisy, or more of his obsession with her.
Fitzgerald used various different examples of figurative language throughout the novel. For example, Fitzgerald writes, “The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosting wedding cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea,” (Fitzgerald 8). Fitzgerald uses imagery to have the readers experience the event that is happening as if the readers were looking at it through their own eyes. Another type of figurative language that is used to enhance the novel is symbolism, when Nick says, “...he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.
“There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.” This quote by Carlos Fuentes presents us with a contemporary perspective into the art and simple aspects of literature. In the novella The Old Man and the Sea and the novel The Great Gatsby, we pocket numerous “variation of the past” through the relations back to the bible. With these allusions back to biblical time, we are also exposed to protagonists that represent a Christ-like savior. “The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the story of a world lost to superficiality and greed.”
His journey from rags to riches, make him the ideal embodiiment of the American dream. Fitzgerald uses syntax to convey the theme of the aspiration towards the audience. In the passage, syntax is used to describe the pleasant and extravagant setting of Gatsby's party. " In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.(pg. 39)".
F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates literary devices in his story, and he creates the most vivid one using them. He uses imagery, foreshadowing and similes to create a beautiful alluring story. Fitzgerald uses a lot of imagery that creates a creative story, when he was describing Nick’s fear of his house being on fire, he makes sure to look at Gatsby’s house and how at “Two o’clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with lights, which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires” (Fitzgerald 81). With this imagery, he shows how the lit house creates a light that shines through and on the shrubbery to depict the light's brightness.
Gatsby Allegory F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, uses figuration within the novel to develop an understanding of the concept that identity is not who you are. From evaluating Jay Gatsby, it can be concluded that from certain experiences in which he had to contend, he contributed to this meaning of work in different ways. One way that Jay Gatsby helps prove that identity is not who you are is when Jay and Nick are on their way to lunch and Jay wants to know Nick’s opinion of him. Gatsby interrupts Nick and says “I don’t want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear”(69).
In chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes imagery and similes to illustrate the different struggles of the people in west egg and east egg. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses imagery quite frequently
At the beginning of the passage, the audience feels solemnity for the death of Gatsby, but as no one arrives, Fitzgerald creates tension and irritation through the dialogue of Nick and “owl-eyes”. The audience sees that Nick truly never had anyone close to him and his money was not enough to garner all the people that came to his expensive parties. Fitzgerald uses the theme to attack materialists because of how much their lives are dictated by money and how little they care for others. Another interesting aspect of this passage is the entrance and dialogue of “owl-eyes”. He barely even knew who Gatsby was, but he still appeared at the funeral.
The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, features the “American dream”. This dream comes with the fake perception of a person receiving everything they could only hope for. Scott’s romanticism plays as a major influence in his writings and his idea of reaching his own American dream. Scott Fitzgerald’s image of the good life is portrayed the through his writings of binging and a better self-image, but can he interpret the difference between fantasy and his own life realities? .
