Inevitable Reality In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Inevitable Reality

In the literary fiction, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an infamous playboy is caught in reality. The theme that is consistently conveyed throughout the text is unacceptable. More specifically, humans tend to waste time creating a false reality and fall victim to the reality they left behind. Readers can see this through the eyes of the narrator Nick Caraway and Jay Gatsby's relationship with Daisy Buchanan. This book is influential and relatable throughout generations, specifically when analyzing the topic of facing reality. Important lessons learned by characters that can be useful in regular life. Firstly, the author uses appeal to convey Gatsby's reputation and his reality. In the text, a variety of characters

The quote exhibits how grand most people believe Gatsby to be especially in their first moments of meeting him, however the image that Gatsby created does not transfer to his reality. Fitzgerald delicately uses another form of appeal, pathos, to pull on the emotions of Gatsby and create a relatability to Gatsby and readers. This concept can be seen in the following quote: “I never realized how extraordinary a nice girl could be” [142]. It makes Gatsby seem more human-like. For him “the great” to find something else extraordinary makes him less snobbish to readers. Lastly, the author's use of Logos was almost non-existent. The tales of Gatsby had no logical explanations and his true actions did not, either. In the text statements like “there was one persistent story that he didn't live in a house at all, but in a boat that looked like a house and was moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore” [94] expresses how imaginative the attitudes about Gatsby are. The character Tom Buchanan was the only person who used logic when assessing Gatsby and the use of this logic brought down Gatsby's fantasies. It can be inferred that if logos were used more frequently, Gatsby probably would not have

Through diction, irony and metaphors, readers have a clear understanding of how hyperbolized the lives of the characters are. Fitzgerald's choice of words in the quote ““Her voice is full of money,” [Gatsby] said suddenly. That was it for me. I'd never understood that before. 115. “Speak volumes about the status of Daisy. In the book she has the life every woman wants, money, husband, house, and child- but she struggles with her partner's infidelity and clings to a man she will never fully accept. Metaphors also play a role in the theme of the book, “—and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.” [124] is a metaphor that signifies the realization that Nick has about reality. He compares the difference between sick and well to those of social status and says that reality and desires do not vary between men. Finally, Irony is considered the most impact-ful literary choice. Fitzgerald titled the book The Great Gatsby and then continued to disassemble the greatness of Gatsby. Tom describes Gatsby as “Mr. Nobody from Nowhere makes love to your wife”[130] which is ironic and foreshadowing because Gatsby was a nobody from nowhere when he first met Daisy. It is also ironic because Tom was among the stars at Gatsby’s infamous parties. The biggest irony