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Use Of Syntax In The Great Gatsby

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Trinity Roodbeen 4th Hour Rough Draft Essay Dreams are just illusions that our brain creates to help us want to succeed in life or achieve a personal goal. Sometimes our dreams can be so relevant in our minds we will do almost anything to make it a reality. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses syntax, similies, and diction to represent a place where cruel, mean men receive women longed for by dreamers like Gatsby and Wilson. How Nick and everyone else talk about tom Buchanan is essential in understanding Tom’s true personality. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses syntax as Nick Describes Tom to portray the kind of man he is, selfish and cruel. When Tom, Jordan, and nick stop by Wilson’s they discover Wilson is outraged at the fact his wife, Myrtle, has been having an affair and doesn’t know who it’s …show more content…

Fitzgerald uses similies to show Myrtle is jealous of Jordan because she is with Tom visiting Wilson. Nick notices Myrtle looking through a window over the garage, Myrtle is “so engrossed that she had no consciousness of being observed.” (313). Nick then notices Myrtle face, “one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture… I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife.” (131). Myrtle is focusing on the fact Tom is with another woman, who Myrtle assumes to be Tom’s wife. She hasn’t considered that if Tom is having an affair with her, then he could have an affair with another woman, even though he isn’t. Wilson cares so much for Myrtle that he is physically sick yet, Myrtle is only focused on the fact Tom had brought another woman with him. Tom couldn’t care less about who he hurts and Myrtle knows she can’t trust him but she still cares for tom and would rather be with him, as a distraction, instead of being with her husband Wilson who actually loves

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