Like many authors, Fitzgerald’s use of words gives the ultimate meaning to their works. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s use of literary devices improve characters and situations throughout the novel. These devices elucidate the impression the author is trying to epitomize to his readers. They also help establish significant themes in many of his works.
As the reader analyzes the setting of this novel, the reader can see that the author gives a cheerful tone and occasionally personifies objects. The author uses figurative language like personification to help readers comprehend descriptions and actions. Such as in this quote, “…floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter…” (Fitzgerald 40) Fitzgerald gives the air a buoyant tone giving the air human characteristics which cannot occur. The use of personification in this sentence helps the reader understand that everyone is having pleasant time at Gatsby’s glitterati. …show more content…
In “Oxymoron in The Great Gatsby”, Peter L. Hays acknowledges many oxymoron’s and paradoxes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hays does this by recognizing several “soft spots” in this novel exhibiting that a certain passage can often be voided out through logical and reasonable thinking. Hays also speaks of Gatsby being a contradiction to himself because, “…he now foolishly believes that the money he has earned erases much of that social gap so that no one will think, as he tells Nick, that "I was just some nobody" (Hayes 1) In another article, the author basically restates what Hays says with “Gatsby himself tries to live by sincere "emotion," but is always trying to cover up by acting as if he has inherited wealth and breeding.” (Irwin
As the reader analyzes the setting of this novel, the reader can see that the author gives a cheerful tone and occasionally personifies objects. The author uses figurative language like personification to help readers comprehend descriptions and actions. Such as in this quote, “…floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter…” (Fitzgerald 40) Fitzgerald gives the air a buoyant tone giving the air human characteristics which cannot occur. The use of personification in this sentence helps the reader understand that everyone is having pleasant time at Gatsby’s glitterati. …show more content…
In “Oxymoron in The Great Gatsby”, Peter L. Hays acknowledges many oxymoron’s and paradoxes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hays does this by recognizing several “soft spots” in this novel exhibiting that a certain passage can often be voided out through logical and reasonable thinking. Hays also speaks of Gatsby being a contradiction to himself because, “…he now foolishly believes that the money he has earned erases much of that social gap so that no one will think, as he tells Nick, that "I was just some nobody" (Hayes 1) In another article, the author basically restates what Hays says with “Gatsby himself tries to live by sincere "emotion," but is always trying to cover up by acting as if he has inherited wealth and breeding.” (Irwin