F. Scott Fitzgerald does an amazing job at portraying the American lifestyle of the 1920s in The Great Gatsby. His work is very serious and contains a fictional story that we all in ways can relate to. However, I found a moment of satire in the novel! On page 85, Fitzgerald gives dialogue between Nick Carraway and Daisy Buchanan.
" '...Tell your chauffeur to go far away and spend an hour.'
'Come back inan hour, Ferdie.' Then in a grave murmer: 'His name is Ferdie.'
'Does the gasoline affect his nose?'
'I don't think so,' she said innocently. 'Why?' "
This was just a little moment that almost made me laugh out loud.
On page 86, I found a great example of imagery where the description really painted a picture inside of my mind. "Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes." In this one sentence, I can feel what Gatsby was feeling. I can see him standing there dripping wet and embarassed. Fitzgerald uses amazing action verbs such as "plunged" and "glaring". The way he uses similes in this sentence was extremely effective as well. The examples are "pale as death" and "his hands plunged like weights".
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