Why Is Irony Important In The Great Gatsby

When we see “ Literature Value, we right away think about the values we give the text we read. In the literature value we can see that the text have different layers of meaning that we can interpret it in different ways without being wrong. Text also raises questions about or open new ways of thinking about life and leaving are important. With the text of literature you come up with different ideas and meanings. “The best literature helps us to understand ourselves, one another and our word in new way and to make connections that had never occurred to us or what we might have sensed but were unable to express”(Abcarian, Klotz and Cohen 3). One of the movies that carry literature value is The Great Gatsby. James Gatz met

We can define irony as “The gap between the [character’s] knowledge and the narrator’s creates irony. (Abcarian, Klotz and Cohen 9) There are two different types of irony, variable and dramatic. Variable is overestimated and in the Dramatic irony the audience knows key information’s that the characters do not know. From all the literature elements I think irony plays an important role in The Great Gatsby. Irony is the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. One of the ironic parts in the movie is when Tom criticizes how women run around and meet the wrong kind of people but Tom goes around and cheats on his wife Daisy. It is ironic because tom cheats on his wife Daisy, with Myrtle and he really should not talk speak up because he talk to a lot of women and he does not care that he cheats on Daisy. Another piece of irony is when Tom goes to get gas at Wilson’s garage and Wilson talks to Tom about how Myrtle is having an affair. I found ironic because Tom is having an affair with Wilson’s wife. Myrtle and Wilson was telling Tom how he found out his wife was having an affair but he doesn’t know whom it was with. It is important because it show how corrupt the people are and how they hide things from other