Rhetorical Devices In The Great Gatsby

Author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896. He was an American writer of novels and short stories. He is known to be one of the greatest writers of the 1920s. He is also considered a member of the “Lost Generation”. Fitzgerald was born to an upper-middle-class family in 1896. He had his first piece of writing published in the school newspaper when he was 13. In 1912, he played football at the school he attended. After graduating high school, he decided to stay in New Jersey to pursue his literary ambitions. At Princeton, he dedicated himself to writing. That was where he became friends with critics and writers such as Edmund Wilson and John Bishop. However in 1917, he dropped out

The Great Gatsby is a flashback about Jay Gatsby and his trouble life, told by Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of Gatsby’s love for Daisy, Nick’s cousin who is married to Tom Buchanan. It takes place in Long Island, New York during the Roaring Twenties. The tone throughout the novel is rather cynical and controlling. Nick is aware of the ridiculousness of the social circumstances, but somehow still gets enchanted by the upper class. He tells the story of the “Great Gatsby” but there are also flashbacks incorporated throughout the

There is a single, green light on Daisy’s dock which Gatsby admires pensively. Fitzgerald uses the light to represent the unattainable dreams that Gatsby fails to attain. Nick claims on the last page of the novel, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter – tomorrow we will run farther, stretch out our arms farther…" Gatsby’s books tell the audience that most of what Gatsby presents to the world is a disguise. Gatsby wanted people to think he was knowledgeable. However, the books represent that it was truly a deception. Gatsby tried to build an image for himself that wasn’t true. Fitzgerald also uses the eyes in T.J. Eckleburg’s billboard as a symbol. The pair of eyes that are “blue and gigantic” give off an eerie image. Nick notes that the eyes keep a “watchful vigil”. Imagery plays an important role in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald used imagery when Gatsby was talking to Nick at his house after one of his tarnished parties. The author describes the broken path Nick talks about which helps connect the theme of loss and heartbreak. Nick had stated, “He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers,” (Fitzgerald 109). The crushed flowers symbolize Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy. It shows Daisy’s unreturned love for Gatsby. The imagery Fitzgerald uses is exquisite