Examples Of Literary Devices In The Great Gatsby

Connie Yoo

English 11A, period 7

Holman

10 January 2023

Analysis of The Great Gatsby’s Literary Devices The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1924, is about a young man named Nick and his fanatical neighbor Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a mystery wrapped in demise. He throws the most extravagant parties known by everyone, but not everyone truly knows him. He is known but also unknown to the world. 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. The reader can vividly understand something clearly at last being shone on the shrubbery and how you could have mistaken the lights for a fire. This is a notable example of how authors can use figurative language to

When Nick leaves Gatsby and Daisy he “...went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain. Leaving them there together” (Fitzgerald 96). With the foreshadow you can sense that something will go down with Gatsby and Daisy, but we do not know yet, allowing the reader to have questions on what Gatsby and Daisy could end up doing. Making the reader yearn for the ending creates an imaginative story to have a plot twist and what is not in the