In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author illustrates the life of people in New York City in the 1920s through the life of the narrator, Nick Carraway. In this novel, the author’s purpose is to make the reader be conscious of the people that did not come to Jay Gatsby’s funeral were spurious and judgmental towards each other. However, Henry Gatz, who is Gatsby’s father, Nick, and Owl Eyes, and few servants were an exception due to them being at the funeral. Fitzgerald portrays this by contrasting the old-money people to the new-money people, how critical and false they are, he does this by stylistically choosing to us paradox and similes to display the some people as fake. One stylistic choice that Fitzgerald
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For example, when Nick is visiting Daisy and Tom for the first time since he has moved to New York, he narrates, “on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all” (6). Fitzgerald uses the words “old friends” and “scarcely knew” to display the opposites. His use of the words “old friends” he is indicating that the Nick knew the people he was visiting through their outside appearance, but with the use of “scarcely knew” it indicates that the Nick does not truly know them. This presents that people can know others without truly knowing one another. Another example is when Nick is reflecting back after Gatsby has died and he describes the death of women by narrating, “Gravely the men turn in at a house – the wrong house. But no one knows the woman’s name, and no one cares” (176). The people that came over to the dead woman’s house did not know who she was, but was only there to show others their character of something being caring. The people that came to pay their respect only knew the woman on basic levels, meaning that they probably saw each other at some occasions, but not on personal levels because when a person knows someone on personal levels they know visit each other and know basic, maybe deeper, facts about one another. Furthermore, when Tom receives a phone call from Myrtle Wilson with …show more content…
To illustrate, when Gatsby is having another one of his famous parties that Nick describes them as “men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (39). The people that are coming to Gatsby’s parties are random and unalike from other people, just like moths because there are millions of moths in the world and they are nothing alike from each other. The light of flames attract the attention of moths because with the source of light acting as a compass they are able to find their way, just the light of the party is attracting the attention of the people of the people on the streets. The guests mostly came out a night where they were very active to find a place where they can spend social time and spend the time with dancing and being in a party spirit, similar to moths being active and coming out at night to find the source of the light with very fast speed. The numerous people coming and going to the party as they please conveys that they are random people from all over New York just coming to let loose because they are not forming any close relationship with anyone, especially when they get drunk, they usually do not remember about the previous day or about who they talked to and what they talked about. In addition, Nick introduces the novel by explaining how his father
For example, when Nick is visiting Daisy and Tom for the first time since he has moved to New York, he narrates, “on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all” (6). Fitzgerald uses the words “old friends” and “scarcely knew” to display the opposites. His use of the words “old friends” he is indicating that the Nick knew the people he was visiting through their outside appearance, but with the use of “scarcely knew” it indicates that the Nick does not truly know them. This presents that people can know others without truly knowing one another. Another example is when Nick is reflecting back after Gatsby has died and he describes the death of women by narrating, “Gravely the men turn in at a house – the wrong house. But no one knows the woman’s name, and no one cares” (176). The people that came over to the dead woman’s house did not know who she was, but was only there to show others their character of something being caring. The people that came to pay their respect only knew the woman on basic levels, meaning that they probably saw each other at some occasions, but not on personal levels because when a person knows someone on personal levels they know visit each other and know basic, maybe deeper, facts about one another. Furthermore, when Tom receives a phone call from Myrtle Wilson with …show more content…
To illustrate, when Gatsby is having another one of his famous parties that Nick describes them as “men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (39). The people that are coming to Gatsby’s parties are random and unalike from other people, just like moths because there are millions of moths in the world and they are nothing alike from each other. The light of flames attract the attention of moths because with the source of light acting as a compass they are able to find their way, just the light of the party is attracting the attention of the people of the people on the streets. The guests mostly came out a night where they were very active to find a place where they can spend social time and spend the time with dancing and being in a party spirit, similar to moths being active and coming out at night to find the source of the light with very fast speed. The numerous people coming and going to the party as they please conveys that they are random people from all over New York just coming to let loose because they are not forming any close relationship with anyone, especially when they get drunk, they usually do not remember about the previous day or about who they talked to and what they talked about. In addition, Nick introduces the novel by explaining how his father