Imagery In the characters
Some of the characters in the Great Gatsby appearance and the way they acted was very dramatic. The author (Fitzgerald) told us how they looked and behaved through imagery. For example there was a seen were Wilson first meets Carraway he is surprised. Wilson had blonde hair, he was handsome and was spiritless. The way he describes him you can tell that he is the type of person that has a hard life. Wilson imagines the mistress Myrtle in an extravagant way that make u see her how he does, “She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can . Her face…contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as …show more content…
There is a bad and interesting thing about the car, which is what the mistress Myrtle was hit and killed by. The irony is that Tom was driving the car. Which he is supposed to be her ticket to the so called “American dream”. But Myrtles Myrtle’s American dream ultimately kills her.
Characters
Another way that Fitizgerald used imagery is at the party at Gatsby’s party. Where the characters John, Baker, Caraway, and nick come across a man in the library, “A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great able, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books” The man is seen again as the owl eyes and you can tell that he kind of looks like a bird.
Imagery in the setting
Gatsby is seen in different settings in the book. Some of them show the reality of a regular person and some show how luxuries’ Gatsby lived his life.
The valley of ashes is described when Tom and nick are on there way to New York. He tells how it was Grim, very impoverished and the working people seemed defeated by life. The way that the author tells you about this grim place it helps you feel how the place really
Some of the characters in the Great Gatsby appearance and the way they acted was very dramatic. The author (Fitzgerald) told us how they looked and behaved through imagery. For example there was a seen were Wilson first meets Carraway he is surprised. Wilson had blonde hair, he was handsome and was spiritless. The way he describes him you can tell that he is the type of person that has a hard life. Wilson imagines the mistress Myrtle in an extravagant way that make u see her how he does, “She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can . Her face…contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as …show more content…
There is a bad and interesting thing about the car, which is what the mistress Myrtle was hit and killed by. The irony is that Tom was driving the car. Which he is supposed to be her ticket to the so called “American dream”. But Myrtles Myrtle’s American dream ultimately kills her.
Characters
Another way that Fitizgerald used imagery is at the party at Gatsby’s party. Where the characters John, Baker, Caraway, and nick come across a man in the library, “A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great able, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books” The man is seen again as the owl eyes and you can tell that he kind of looks like a bird.
Imagery in the setting
Gatsby is seen in different settings in the book. Some of them show the reality of a regular person and some show how luxuries’ Gatsby lived his life.
The valley of ashes is described when Tom and nick are on there way to New York. He tells how it was Grim, very impoverished and the working people seemed defeated by life. The way that the author tells you about this grim place it helps you feel how the place really