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The Great Gatsby Rhetorical Devices

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Esteemed writer and author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his top-selling novel, The Great Gatsby, facilitates Nick’s attitude towards Jay Gatsby by implementing rhetorical devices/choices. Fitzgerald’s purpose in his employment of such rhetorical devices is to give clarification, that Nick is still numb to the realization that he has lost someone so significant and no one else shows the slightest interest in Gatsby now that he’s dead. To establish the jilted tone of the passage, he utilizes imagery and diction in order to convey how the town has, seemingly, become so abandoned all due to Nick’s having lost Gatsby. Fitzgerald facilitates his diction by emphasizing the abandonment Nick now feels towards his surroundings now that Gatsby is gone. Fitzgerald

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