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The Great Gatsby Language Analysis

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Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses very descriptive language to make the reader feel as though they are in the passage. He writes with the use of many metaphors and often times engages all five senses in one scene. One scene in particular that is very memorable is the end of the novel when Nick is sitting on the beach thinking over his time since he has moved to New York. Nick thinks to himself that Gatsby had come to the spot he was at and “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther….And one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, …show more content…

In the beginning of the novel Tom asks Nick if he has read The Rise of the Colored Empire. He describes this book as using scientific evidence to defend the white race, saying that if they don 't do something to stop it, other races will take over and ruin society. This idea was very prevalent in the 1920s due to a lot of migration, a strong feeling of nativism became popular. Fitzgerald chooses to describe women as problematic due to the only reason being that they are female. He says “Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply” (Fitzgerald 58). The “New Woman” idea became more popular as women expressed the desire for a more independent life. The idea that a woman could never amount to be socially or economically greater than men, an ideal that backlashed against the New Woman, is shown again when Daisy explains to Nick that she was saddened when she discovered she had given birth to a girl because all she could amount to was a “pretty fool”. Tom and Myrtle choose to have an affair together not because they are scared to leave their partners, but because they come from two different social classes and cannot marry each other or they will be looked down to by society. The affairs, excessive drinking, and the ideas surrounding women, all show the values of

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Fitzgerald utilizes many rhetorical strategies throughout his novel. Specific to the excerpt the rhetorical strategies metaphor and personification are found to be used to strengthen Fitzgerald’s key themes of dreams and reality. Ultimately though, the rhetorical strategies and themes contribute to creating the effect that Gatsby is truly above the average man and that Gatsby, at least to Nick, is some amazing creature that grew from his dreams. The first instance of personification to be used in the passage is in the line, “I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever: I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart” This use of personification has the effect of

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Chapter seven of The Great Gatsby is memorable due to its strong concentration of rhetoric. Rhetoric gives the audience a deeper read into a story, and in this case the story of Nick Carraway and his friendship with Jay Gatsby, a man who seeks to be reunited with his past lover Daisy Buchanan. Using characterization, figurative language, and concrete diction, Fitzgerald highlights the events of chapter seven to create a lasting impact to the audience. “She ran out ina road. Son-of-a-bitch didn’t even stopus car” (Fitzgerald 139).

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