In this specific selection of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses figurative language, diction, and a dominate impression, to portray the growing tension of the climax, the common themes of the American dream, and loving commitments failing. In the beginning of this passage, Tom is taken back by Gatsby announcing that Daisy never loved him but loved Gatsby for the past five years. Throughout this scene Fitzgerald uses figurative language to reference Daisy and Tom’s relationship failing and the theme of loving commitment falling apart. While arguing that Daisy never loved Gatsby, Tom is said to have, “tapped his thick fingers together like a clergyman.” This simile is ironic because it said earlier in the book that the only
