The Great Gatsby Rhetorical Analysis

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Acclaimed writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel’s resolution, The Great Gatsby portrays Nick’s closure of the most dramatic chapter in his life with Jay Gatsby’s death. Fitzgerald’s purpose is to highlight Gatsby’s absence and Nick’s grieving to acceptance attitude. He utilizes detailed imagery and a chronological organization to create an attitude of grieving to resignation in Nick and indicate the audience the impact that Gatsby had on his life. Fitzgerald opens his description of Nick’s attitude by narrating how significant was Gatsby for him. He portrays Gatsby’s impact by establishing that Nick had to stay in New York to not “hear the music and the laughter” of the “gleaming, dazzling parties of his [Gatsby]” (187). Fitzgerald illustrates