Analytical Tasks

                                        Media - By Akunna Nwaogu

" I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." ( Fitzgerald 













" Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs. Wilson.' I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai--.'"

"At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others    

 too."

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Analysis of setting: By- Priyana Jeyanathan

                       

                                

     The setting of The Great Gatsby was a very wild, exciting, adventurous, and a beautiful setting. In terms of society. everyone wanted a good reputation so they can be invited to extravagant parties, to be wealthy, and to also fit in. West Egg includes many rich people who get a lot of attention, especially Gatsby. Culturally, the people in this 1920's society would always smoke, drink, dance, and have the best time ever. I found the setting outrageously wild, exciting, and extraordinary. Historically, the mansions received a lot of attention. If you were very poor, you would automatically have a bad reputation. However, Nick lived in a very small house. Since he was cousins with Daisy, he had a good reputation. Overall, the setting was very unique and a very complicated society to live in since there was not many acceptance for specific people. However, the setting was very impressive. 

Analysis of Style and Structure 

Bushra Rizvi

             Fitzgerald is a very talented author just by reading The Great Gatsby it's clear that he really knows how to manipulate the style of the story to the reader in his liking. He has a way with words the best when it comes to conveying a certain type of mood into the atmosphere of a setting. Even though his style of writing is formal with an old style of English as it's obviously from the 1920's, the conversations written of the characters gets one hooked because of the way each and every one of them communicates and reacts. Themes are clear and right in front of the reader as its about the misfortunes and tragedies of being greedy only for wealth.

          As I had mentioned before describing scenery is what is addicting in The Great Gatsby as it takes away the dull lifestyle of the 1920's with cigarette butts ajar on streets and people striving for a job to being described as if in one of the most astonishing places has been witnessed by Nick." A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea." (Fitzgerald 19) This was at the start of the book as Nick was entering the mansion of Gatsby giving us that same feeling of being in a place with nothing you could afford from there just like Nick. "So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight." This quote is also another example of how Daisy expresses almost getting into a car crash so calm, "toward death through the cooling twilight." Clearly showing how careless she seemed  whilst expressing the beauty of driving towards death itself as if a beautiful path into the light of the sun. 

         One of the most common devices used by Fitzgerald is of course the use of similes, as his way of writing is describing what's around the characters in their perspective. His use of similes just adds to the describing part throughout the story. "And only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow." (Fitzgerald 76) the letter that Daisy had received could have meant so much more to her as it is described that even if that had been left in the water of the dishes is when she noticed. Another simile in the story is "dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been block back in after a short flight around the house." Yet again another way Nick describes how weightless Daisy and Jordan look, weightless in looks of their summer flow of a wardrobe, but not at all weightless when it comes to Daisy's quenching desires to get her hands on wealth. This simile in a figurative way is foreshadowing Daisy's outcome as well because in the end her greed doesn't get her what she wants as if weightless and Gatsby, the one who would've provided her with all of this dies.