Literary Devices And Diction In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

THE GREAT GATSBY

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

Fitzgerald was able to create this illusionary world of Gatsby where anything lost in the past can be taken back in the real world with imagery and diction. Fitzgerald wrote this classical novel using work of literature to point out the tragedy, misconceptions, flashback and connection to the roaring twenties to get across a point of view to his audience. The first literary devices Fitzgerald use in this classical novel is diction: negative and positive to carry the main outlook in the book. The author use negative diction to asseverate the tone towards the social class during a period of time. Describing the "Valley of Ashes" made the readers vision and can compared it to East Egg by his word choices to how people end up

Scott Fitzgerald use is syntax to capture his particular writing style throughout the novel. Many people will wonder why The Great Gatsby novel is so small unlike some other novels like Harry Potter, that’s because Fitzgeralds ways of writing is different. He does not give descriptive details on things leading to wasting of unnecessary paper going straight to the point, an example is Nick didn 't give details to how to get to West Egg when that stranger asked him, instead Fitzgerald wrote "I told him". This makes the reader to keep on reading in order to find out where East Egg is located and what class lives there. Fitzgerald 's fragments sentences with a lot of commas, short sentences and semicolons which separates the long sentences makes the reader to comprehend the sentences quicker and easier instead of reading long sentence not being able to breakdown what it 's all about, the author have the chance to insert or take away ideas and philosophical thoughts that will improve the sentences even better. " The rumor is, whispered Jordan, 'that that 's Toms ' girl on the telephone" ( Fitzgerald 123). This tells the reader that Tom is cheating on her with another woman without reading a long sentence that will just drag the story around just to find out the same thing. Fitzgerald uses complex syntax like independent then dependent to describe a situation and setting a pathway for the rest of the paragraph, "Gatsby believed in the green light