The Great Gatsby Research Paper

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Kylie Hester Angela Hobart English 11 13 May 2024 Theme Development of The Great Gatsby Some relationships may lack love, while others openly demonstrate their affection. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author, shows the consequences of actions in a relationship and the struggles of chasing the American dream. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald develops a theme of love and marriage using plot elements, plot development, and literary devices. F. Scott Fitzgerald develops a theme of love and marriage using plot elements. At the exposition, Nick Carraway relocated to the East to work as a bonds salesman and secured a rental in the West Egg neighborhood of Long Island. During his stay, he frequently visits his cousin Daisy, her spouse Tom, and Jordan …show more content…

Across the water in the more refined village of East Egg lives his cousin Daisy and her brutish, absurdly wealthy husband Tom Buchanan. Early in the summer, Nick goes over to their house for dinner, where he also meets Jordan Baker, a friend of Daisy’s and a well-known golf champion, who tells him that Tom has a mistress in New York City. In a private conversation, Daisy confesses to Nick that she is unhappy. Returning to his house in West Egg, he catches sight of his neighbor Jay Gatsby standing alone in the dark and stretching his arms out to a green light burning across the bay at the end of Tom and Daisy’s dock (Martinez). F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby explores the theme of love and marriage through various plot elements, the development of the plot, and literary devices. The novel The Great Gatsby uses plot development to create love and marriage. The evidence that is used is the quasi-volta structure of the book, which turns around the central fifth chapter, where Gatsby and Daisy …show more content…

The passage describes Doctor T. J. Eckleburg's billboard, which contains rich visual imagery. But above the gray land and the bleak dust that drifts over it, you can see, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. This is an example of a metaphor because Dr. T.J. Eckleburg's eyes are often associated with symbolizing the eyes of God looking down on society in judgment (Fitzgerald). Some foreshadowing is Tom and Myrtle's relationship, this is a form of foreshadowing because when Nick brings him to Myrtle’s apartment, Myrtle starts to repeat Daisy's name and makes Tom mad then breaks her nose out of frustration. Tom’s brutal nature pinpoints the frustration and stress that Tom and Myrtle have in their relationship. Daisy and Tom have an excuse that they can’t divorce because Daisy is Catholic even though she isn't. Myrtle doesn't know that, so this foreshadows Daisy’s later refusal to say she never loved Tom (Literature). She can say she never loved Tom because she did, even though she says she has loved Gatsby too, she is