Examples Of Mood In The Great Gatsby

Authors have unique ways to draw readers into the stories. What helps those authors is their literary devices. Literary devices are what help the author choose what to write to convey the atmosphere and the feeling of the story. F. Scott Fitzgerald effectively utilizes word choice and mood to help convey the atmosphere and the feeling of the party. The first literary device that Fitzgerald illustrates throughout this passage is word choice; his use of word choice certainly enhances the feeling of extravagance. “ Hair bobbed in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.” (The Great Gatsby, paragraph 2) This passage is showing how the girls are supposedly wearing clothes of beyond luxury. “ Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality…”(The Great Gatsby, paragraph 3). In this passage, it mentions prodigality which means wasteful extravagance in spending. Only people who are rich could be at a party like …show more content…
The mood that conveys the story is what draws readers in. The suspense, the passion, the way the book makes readers feel about the situation is helped with the mood. “ Whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolo, and low and high drums.”(The Great Gatsby, paragraph 2). This passage gives the feeling of excess, with the only the rich being able to afford the orchestra of such extravagance. “The cars from New York…”(The Great Gatsby, paragraph 2). The extravagance from this section shows that they have cars from New York, and to be able to afford to buy a car and have it there to show that they are wealthy. “ Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality.””(The Great Gatsby, paragraph 3). The meaning of prodigality is wasteful extravagance in spending. This shows that the people are able to extravagantly spend their