Examples Of Stylistic Devices In The Great Gatsby

Many of the people in the world regard The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, one of the greatest literary classics of all time. However there is always at least one, most the time few and far between, that disagrees with this statement. H. L. Mencken is one of these persons. After reading the novel Mencken writes an excerpt to be published in the magazine Evening Sun, after all he is one of the leading literary critics of his time. In this essay we will discover how Mencken uses rhetorical devices to portray his thoughts of the novel, The Great Gatsby.

The narrator compares her beauty displaying regrets to children having to children departing from playing outside in the evening. Daisy is a beautiful girl that Nick becomes instantly star-struck in; however, the reader knows that her personality kills this star-struck from the phrase, “then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret.” Her personality is compared to “like

As Gatsby reaches out across the bay the green light evades his grasp, the elusive future receding from his myopic viewpoint. Through the course of time America has been referred to as the Land of the free and opportunity, but as times have changed so have American viewpoints. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a love affair based in 1922 using juxtaposition to create a parallel between realist and idealistic views on wealth to reveal the demise of the American Dream in what is known as the Roaring Twenties.

According to the newspaper company The Telegraph, daisies can become “serious weeds” and have the ability “thrive in generally inhospitable conditions.” This informative description of a common daisy mirrors F. Scott Fitzgerald’s character, Daisy Buchanan. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Daisy tries to preserve the stability of her wealthy lifestyle through her marriage with Tom Buchanan instead of pursuing true love with Gatsby. Daisy becomes monotonous and dependent on wealth to act as an equilibrator of her life. Her dependency becomes uncontrollable, and that like that beautiful, innocent flower, she becomes a vile weed rooted in corruption. Fitzgerald implements Daisy as a way to convey the innate destructive property of wealth; it

Analysis: Fitzgerald uses ashes, fire and dust to represent the unachievable desire for the great American Dream. Fitzgerald uses the character George Wilson as a voice of many who live in the valley of ashes to get away from the filthy place, he said “i’ve been here too long. I want to get away”. This show through Wilson's hardest efforts to achieve his dreams he is still stuck in this dump. It speaks to the lost expectations and dreams of individuals who have neglected to satisfy the American Dream.

The third chapter of the great Gatsby takes place at Gatsby’s luxurious mansion where he hosts a very lavish party where guests sometimes “came and went without having met Gatsby at all”, many guests “were not invited”, but they still “went there” (page 41). Fitzgerald utilizes visual imagery to portray how Gatsby’s lavish home attracts people to his parties not because they identify themselves as friends nor even acquaintances, but because of his wealth, people do not seek him out nor do they thank him for his hospitality, they treat his home like an “amusement park” (page 41). The use of this simile demonstrates, again how his so-called guests views his parties. Fitzgerald uses auditory imagery to show how Gatsby’s guests do not seem to respect

F. Scott Fitzgerald includes many motifs and symbols within The Great Gatsby. One important motif is the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. Fitzgerald ultimately uses the eyes to show disapproval and criticism of society and how God watches over everyone and everything. The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg represents the all seeing, overlooking eyes of God. The eyes of Dr. Eckleburg develops religion as the desire of wealth and social class have replaced spiritual values in American society during the 1920s.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, portrays the life of a man who is truly focused on one dream: to reclaim the love of his life. This one dream propels every one of Gatsby’s actions, words, and thoughts, making him extremely vulnerable. When she shatters his world in his last few hours alive, he finds himself with no meaning left in his life. Fitzgerald uses extended metaphor and sharp diction to show Gatsby’s crumbling life in his last moments. Fitzgerald employs the extended metaphor of the “new world” to illustrate the total collapse of Gatsby’s reality.

The central conflict of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is the clash between Gatsby's dream and the unpleasant, real world reality—“the foul dust [that] floats in the wake of his dreams" (Fitzgerald 2). Gatsby, the dreamer, remains as pure and unbreakable as his dream of greatness, an

The F. Scott Fitzgerland who's an author of the Great Gatsby passage usage of diction, image, details, figurative language and different type of structures of the sentence creates the passage more visible and understandable.For example, the author uses a word" the valley of ashes" to describe the valley. Furthermore, he creates an image in the reader's mind with descriptive and concise words for the valley in the better structure of the sentence. Besides, he also uses the figurative language to create a better image that helps the reader to comprehend. Moreover, he uses detail such as the eye of doctor T.j. are blue and gigantic, to convince the reader to ponder about how it's important to the story. Overall, the author would have a

James attempts to explain this lack of inhibition by constructing for her a simplistic vernacular and almost oblivious approach to life that would prove her innocence. Without knowledge, any faux pas are assumed inexperience, not immorality. This inexperience with more cultured society is also apparent in her vernacular. Daisy says things like "ever so" (56) that give her away as an "uncultivated person" (121). Her name, and the fact that it is her chosen, not given one, is also very significant. Miller suggests her family's humble history and Daisy, a "common flower...is also simple and unpretentious. The fact that it opens up in the sun also suggests [Daisy's] life-loving qualities" (121). That she chose this name also supports a view that Daisy had no qualms about living the way she does as a simple, life-loving creature. James also provides some subtle symbolism to support once again Daisy's innocence. In one scene, Daisy sits alone with Giovanelli and a painting of "Innocence X by Velazquez" (105) hangs above them to remind the

The Great Gatsby is filled with symbols and symbolism, which try to convey Fitzgerald's ideas to the reader. The symbols are uniquely involved in the plot of the story, which makes their implications more real. There are three major symbols that serve very important significance in the symbolism of the novel. They are "the valley of the ashes," the reality that represents the corruption in the world, the green light of Daisy's lap that Gatsby sees across the bay and lastly, the symbolism of the East Egg and West Egg or more important the east and the west of the country.

Besides the visual blazon he writes on Daisy as a traditional weapon of subjugation (and which permits him, momentarily, to "mentally accuse" her face "of a want of finish" [7]), Winterbourne tries something equally dominating‹to usurp Daisy's own power of sight by judging her eyes only on aesthetic terms. In their meeting, Daisy is at first ostensibly pinned by Winterbourne's evaluative gaze of superlatives and particularization, but her eyes tell another story: "She sat there with her extremely pretty hands, ornamented with very brilliant rings, folded in her lap, and with her pretty eyes now resting upon those of

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote many books and stories throughout his life. His style of writing was like no other. One of his most famous was "The Great Gatsby" which was about two people representing the two sides of Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. He also wrote another book “Tender is the Night” which is about his experiences with his wife while she suffered chronic mental breakdowns, most happening out of the blue. Most of his stories and books were biographies of himself and his life and in other term allegories. Also there are huge changes in his writing throughout history. His stories and books go from happy themes, filled with dancing, drinking, and riches, to sober themes exploring maturity, regret, and sadness. Lastly, knowing Fitzgerald is an author from the Jazz Age, he was influenced to write about love.

“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction – Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” (pg. 8)