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The Great Gatsby Mood

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Praised writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel, chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby describes the feeling of losing the love of your life. Fitzgerald’s purpose is to evoke a melancholic feeling to the audience. He utilizes a gloomy atmosphere in order to make the reader go through the heartache of Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald begins his portrayal of Gatsby by narrating his lugubrious facet after he realizes that a message from Daisy is never going to come. He creates a somber mood by suggesting that he “felt he had lost the warm world,” and noticed how “a grotesque thing a rose is” (172). Fitzgerald illustrates a forlorn ambiance to describe how significant was Daisy in Gatsby’s life. The language he employs serves to portray to the audience the gloomy
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