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The Great Gatsby Mood Analysis Essay

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Connecting the Pieces

Contextualization: According to Nick, Gatsby is determined to relive his past with Daisy and find parts of himself that loved her by “[returning] to a certain starting place and [going] over it all slowly” (Fitzgerald 110). Directly after this scene, Nicks curiosity hits a peak while Gatsby’s presence and parties disappear. (48 words)

Summary: This scene takes place on pages 110 and 111 at the end of chapter 6 and shows Gatsby’s desire to repeat the past through Nick’s perspective, by having Nick piece together the meaning of Jay Gatsby’s kiss with Daisy from five years prior.

Analysis: It was five years before when Gatsby and Daisy “had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling” with only the presence of each other (110). Their …show more content…

Onomatopoeia is also present with the word choice of “humming” (110). A metaphor brings to attention Gatsby’s want of success to achieve Daisy, by allowing the blocks of the sidewalk to mount “to a secret place above the trees” (110) like a ladder, and if Gatsby were to climb it, “he could suck on the pap of life” (110). The ladder symbolism also contains foreshadowing by having Jay Gatsby picture his future life, away from being poor, and to the days filled with success, and money, and the time to come back for Daisy. This is foreshadowing since it eventually becomes a reality. As this scene progresses, Steinbeck provides symbolism of colors and flowers by including similes when “Daisy’s white face came up to his own” and “she blossomed for him like a flower” (110, 111). The similes are used to give the reader a sense of imagery in this scene to help paint a picture in one's head, and allow better comprehension. To connect similar ideas, clever punctuation is added, such as dashes in between what could be two separate clauses. These dashes show the reader that Nick is connecting ideas as he writes the scene and

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