In the novel The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the literary element of imagery to create a vivid image in the reader's mind and set the mood. A specific example of this was when Nick the chauffeur, butler and gardener go down by the pool to see what had happened to Gatsby, they look and, “With little ripples that were hardly shadows of waves[...] a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water,” (Fitzgerald 140). After finding Gatsby’s body with blood swirling around the men realize that he has been shot dead. Through the author's style of using imagery in the novel, he illustrates that in order to reveal the plot of the novel it is not necessary to state the exact
