In the following passage, how does Fitzgerald utilize literary devices and authorial choices to characterize George Wilson? F. Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs literary devices and authorial choices to portray George Wilson as a beleaguered individual. He utilizes imagery to mechanic George's destitution, the depiction of his "unprosperous and bare" garage (Fitzgerald 20). garage serves as a repair shop and is the most in George's daily life, remains dilapidated, a poignant glimpse of his destitute existence. The author's adept use of adjectives addresses the further the impact. This is particularly true in the where the narrator is a “dust-covered wreck” (Fitzgerald 20). In this scene, he describes the shabby Ford in the quote above. Dust-covered …show more content…
He is in this society as well. The dialogue between George and Tom further illustrates George's predicament, underscoring the conflict between Tom and Wilson. For example, Tom's usage of “jovially” (Fitzgerald 20) in his casual gesture of patting George on the shoulder reveals his disregard for the significance of delayed delivery of the car, indicating his self-assuredness and sense of superiority. Through this skillful characterization, Tom is depicted as slapping and somewhat brash, contrasting with Wilson's portrayal as These contrasting elements, Tom's behavior and Nick's description of Wilson's dismissal, both contribute to exemplifying the stark social stratification. The brief conversation not only highlights Tom's specific behavior but also offers insight into the broader scope of George's pressure to consistently face inequality and dismissal from the entrenched old-money and higher classes. Fitzgerald also verbal irony in the passage when Wilson responds to Tom's inquiry about his business with the statement, "I can't complain" (Fitzgerald 20). Despite this assertion, the narrator describes Wilson's response as suggesting potential underlying issues. As a victim of Tom's
On the face of it, Tom and George or different. Tom is wealthy, George is poor. Tom is a bully, George is bullied. Tom never works, George works all the time. The men are connected by Myrtle, George’s wife and Tom’s lover. Myrtle moves the both of them to be violent. Tom, caught by his need to assert dominance over both his wife, Daisy and Myrtle, brutally suppresses Myrtle in Chapter Two:
What literary techniques does F. Scott Fitzgerald use to present? Gatsby's party in Chapter III of the novel. The people of 1920's America often lead a very extravagant lifestyle. rich people often overspent in vast amounts, a term known as Conspicuous consumption of the sand.
From the beginning of the book, Tom is shown to be a contentious character. While Tom, Daisy, and Nick are all at dinner, Tom goes into a diatribe about the importance of the dominant race, going on to say “It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things” (17). Later in the text, the readers learn about an argument between George and Myrtle Wilson. During the fight, Myrtle screams at George, “Beat me! Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward” (144). This is one of the first signals to the reader that George may be more contentious than imperturbable.
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald was written in a unique and intellectual way using three devices providing the readers with detailed descriptions, emotions and creativity capturing the American Dream. They are Diction, Syntax, and connotation, Fitzgerald 's word choices and arrangement of the sentences using this devices put an image in our mind to how the Jazz Age use to be back then. The author was able to recreate Jazz Age or the roaring 20s is when wealthy people spend their money on alcohol, material things that will not last a long time in the novel in order to enhance the aspect of the American Dream back then and in current human society. His figurative language throughout Great Gatsby captures images appealing to
Daisy will never leave Tom as he represents the social class she wants. Tom comes from old money similar to Daisy; if Daisy left Tom she would lose her social class and automatically be disowned from the old money class of New York. Likewise, irony is used to effectively illustrate Tom Buchanan’s hypocritical nature. After Tom finds out that Daisy and Gatsby are romantically involved, he insults Gatsby left and right. He goes as far to say that, “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife” (130). His statement here is deemed ironic. He is enraged and offended that someone else is having an affair with his wife, yet he is doing the same thing to another man’s wife, Myrtle Winston. It as if Tom can cheat on Daisy, but when Daisy does it all hell breaks loose. Irony is also well utilized to show how two faced a character Tom is. When Myrtle dies, Tom immediately becomes Mr. Wilson’s right hand man. He told the policeman “I’m his friend (140)” while he had “his hands firm on Mr. Wilson’s body”.(140) This situation is ironic as Tom is putting a front that he is a good person and that Mr. Wilson can lean on him when
In The Great Gatsby, the wealthy are shown to be self-centered while the poor are left to suffer in poverty. The wealthy really don’t like change in the social order, doing everything they can to keep the lower class in their place. The prime example is the Buchanans’ treatment of Gatsby; however, he isn't the only one who suffered at their hand. George Wilson is also unfortunately one of those people. Throughout the book, Wilson, a car dealer, asks Tom if he is going to sell the blue coupe’ to him, Tom promised Wilson at the beginning of chapter 2, “Next week; I’ve got my man working on it now.” (Fitzgerald, 29) The reason he needs the car is so he can sell it and make money to support himself and his wife Myrtle. Despite his numerous promises to Wilson, Tom never gave him the car. The only reas...
Tom’s money also leads him to think he’s better than everyone else and is therefore uncaring about what happens to the little people like George & Myrtle Wilson, and is disdainful of those who try and earn...
Tom Buchanan may seem as an arrogant, narcissist and misogynic man at first glance. On the inside, however, he is just a lonely man that doesn’t have confidence in himself. He doesn’t confront his fears, but rather, he muffles them up by using an impervious chassis of distasteful personality traits of arrogance and condescendence in order to avoid facing his true self. Escaping reality, however, is only temporary and reality always catches up. In the end, he is forced to face his cowardice and loneliness. When Nick sees him along Fifth Avenue, he “[frowns] into the windows of a jewelry store” (178) as if remembering the loss of Myrtle, or even possibly seeking a new abode for his thirst of love. Even eggshells that don’t decay for centuries will eventually corrode and disappear.
Wilson shows this attribute by telling Michaelis the man who runs the coffee shop adjacent to Wilsons business that he had his wife locked up and, “she’s going to stay there till the day after to-morrow, and then we’re going to move away” (Fitzgerald pg136). This statement shows that Wilson will do what he believes is best when Myrtles involved, and her opinion has no weight in his decision making process. Tom also shows his dominant mentality in chapter 7 when Tom and Gatsby are arguing over Daisy and Tom ejects, “She’s not leaving me!” (Fitzgerald pg133). This statement shows that Tom has a sense as if he has ownership of Daisy and makes her decisions for
Tom thinks he is in a league of his own, and that his actions do not have consequences. Even during Tom and Daisy’s honeymoon, Tom was unfaithful to Daisy by “being with” another individual. Tom had no business being with a chambermaid in a vehicle; Jordan’s quote alludes to the following: as long as Daisy and Tom have been married, Tom has been a cheater and has not given Daisy the proper respect that all women deserve. In addition to Tom being unfaithful, he is consumed with wealth and the ways it was obtained. Tom does not see Gatsby as an equal, even though they both have wealth; the only differences about the wealth are as follows: the ways the wealth was obtained and how long ago the wealth was obtained.
Certain authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, wanted to reflect the horrors that the world had experienced not a decade ago. In 1914, one of the most destructive and pointless wars in history plagued the world: World War I. This war destroyed a whole generation of young men, something one would refer to as the “Lost Generation”. Modernism was a time that allowed the barbarity of the war to simmer down and eventually, disappear altogether. One such author that thrived in this period was F. Scott Fitzgerald, a young poet and author who considered himself the best of his time. One could say that this self-absorption was what fueled his drive to be the most famous modernist the world had seen. As The New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean mentions in her literary summary of Fitzgerald’s works, “I didn’t know till fifteen that there was anyone in the world except me, and it cost me plenty” (Orlean xi). One of the key factors that influenced and shaped Fitzgerald’s writing was World War I, with one of his most famous novels, This Side Of Paradise, being published directly after the war in 1920. Yet his most famous writing was the book, The Great Gatsby, a novel about striving to achieve the American dream, except finding out when succeeding that this dream was not a desire at all. Fitzgerald himself lived a life full of partying and traveling the world. According to the Norton Anthology of American Literature, “In the 1920’s and 1930’s F. Scott Fitzgerald was equally equally famous as a writer and as a celebrity author whose lifestyle seemed to symbolize the two decades; in the 1920’s he stood for all-night partying, drinking, and the pursuit of pleasure while in the 1930’s he stood for the gloomy aftermath of excess” (Baym 2124). A fur...
Tom not only is “graduated from New Haven in 1915” (Fitzgerald 101), but also attains the affluence that constrains Gatsby from reaching his “American Dream”. One of most significant scenario that leads to the suspension of the story is the conversation between Gatsby and Tom in a room in New York City, joined by Nick and Jordan Baker. Gatsby imposes another lie about his background in order to ameliorate his social status; he lies about his background and that he “only stayed [at Oxford for] five months” (Fitzgerald 129) to put himself in the same social class as Tom’s. However, Tom exposes Gatsby’s insecurity and deceitfulness about his status, “He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That 's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn 't far wrong." (Fitzgerald 143). However, mindlessly, Gatsby fails to realize that Tom completely debunks, almost destroys, his credibility. Yet, Gatsby angrily confronts Tom, “Your wife doesn’t love you..She’s never loved you. She loves me” (Fitzgerald 130). Gatsby’s aggressiveness portrays a symptom of “Psychology of Social Status”, which explains that “low-status individuals [are] vigilant toward protecting their sense of self-worth.. [and] are quicker to respond violently to
In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses tone, diction, syntax and imagery to voice Nick's perception of the world around him. In this passage his use of language is used repetitively to convey Jordan Baker, Daisy and Tom Buchanan's lives. On the outside it may look like they all are living a perfect and ideal life, however Fitzgerald's illuminating use of language highlights how far from perfect their lives truly are.
“"Self-control!" Repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out"” (Fitzgerald 130). Tom does not see Gatsby as an equal, even though they both have wealth; the only differences about the wealth are as follows: Gatsby started out impoverished and earned his wealth; whereas, Tom had his wealth handed down. This quote is an example of irony; Tom wants to go on a tangent about self-control; he needs some self-control! Tom will make love with any woman he pleases and shower them with money. “His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts” (Fitzgerald 7). Wealth makes Tom "paternal," as though it gives him the right to tell the entire world how to behave. A realization is that Tom did not earn his wealth. Tom has literally done nothing to deserve this thought process. So why does he get to be boss to everyone? Tom thinks since he has money that he can do anything he wants; however, this thought process is unacceptable for Jay Gatsby to have, at least in the eyes of Tom
Tom Buchanan epitomizes the advent of moral uncertainty of the Modernist Era. Upon Tom’s introduction in the novel, Fitzgerald makes his lack of morals very evident. When Nick goes to have dinner with the Buchanans and Jordan, he learns something new about Tom. Jordan tells Nick something she believed everyone knew.