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Examples Of Parallelism In The Great Gatsby

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Nick describes meeting Gatsby for the first time at one of his parties and one thing that strikes him is Gatsby’s smile. The smile is personified in that it is said to concentrate on the one it is directed at and have prejudices. Fitzgerald may be characterizing Nick with this smile. Nick may see what he wants to see in the smile. Having recently moved to West Egg to try his hand in the bond business, Nick may be in search of the understanding, assurance, and support that the smile is providing. Using parallelism, Fitzgerald describes these actions; the smile “understood you [...] believed in you [...] and assured you” to demonstrate equal importance of all three. Gatsby is also personified by the smile in that in the entire description
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