The famous novel, The Great Gatsby, makes use of many literary elements, but juxtaposition is the element use most impressively and effectively. Juxtaposition, which is showing contrasting characters or settings to develop the story or add to a characters personality, is a very important part of The Great Gatsby. Be it between the lifestyles of our main character, Nick Carraway, and the namesake of the book, Jay Gatsby, or between the entirety of chapter one and chapter three, we see juxtaposition used incredibly well in just the first three chapters. F. Scott Fitzgerald almost seems to have invented the idea of juxtaposing. Although both Nick Carraway and Gatsby come from very rich families, incredible differences are apparent between