What Is The Connotation In The Great Gatsby

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Gatsby Analytical Essay
Within the novel Fitzgerald plays upon the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. He reveals the struggle daisy must encounter of being a married woman who longs for another man.
The author also showcases Gatsby infatuation with Daisy and the plans he has created for them which included her ending her marriage and leaving the life she knew behind. In his Novel The
Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses similes and metaphors to reveal that having outrageous expectations in life can in turn be detrimental to the human condition.
In the middle of the book Fitzgerald flashes back to daisy’s wedding day where he reveals how daisy had received a letter from her earlier love, Gatsby and how she would “only leave it in the soap dish [once] it was coming to …show more content…

However, the second and more pronounced metaphor completely changes the connotation. The flower seemed to have represented the love for Daisy and with “the incarnation complete” it suggests that their love has finished. After years apart, one single moment together has ended something they wished could be everlasting.
Another use of Fitzgerald’s stylistic literary devices occur earlier on in the book when
Gatsby finally addresses the life he has dreamed up for him and daisy. He says “possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light diminished forever… his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.” (Fitzgerald 98) This metaphor explains that the dream of him and daisy being together was something that would not occur. No matter how much he yearned for the fantasy of finally being with her. His expectations could and would not be reached. In conclusion, the use of simile and metaphor throughout the novel bare the evidence that wanting too much from someone can do more negative than positive. Gatsby’s unrealistic

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