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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1925. Print.
Smith, David J. "Letting Go of the past Helps Prepare Us for the Future." Grand Rapids Business Journal. N.p., 5 July 2012. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.

The Great Gatsby Author's style analysis

Fitzgerald's style is defined by his intentional sentence structure and his use of imagery and symbolism.  Fitzgerald's choice of words in The Great Gatsby is quite notable because he knows when to use words like "he remarked decisively" instead of using "he said."  This makes the characters have a much more audible voice and give the book a deeper meaning because it can boast a variety of words.  Fitzgerald often uses a periodic structure for his descriptions and telegraphic sentence structure for his dialogue.  A good example of a periodic sentence is "Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering"(Fitzgerald 35).  This passage is a clear example because the subject is unknown until the very end.  The periodic structure adds suspense and depth to a would-be-normal sentence.  It also helps him take the reader in a particular direction or to a certain conclusion.  Fitzgerald uses telegraphic sentences for dialogue because they make the dialogue feel like normal human speech.

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The tone goes between gloomy and cheerful.  By using an almost contradictory tone, Fitzgerald
instills the feeling of a more realistic situation.  From the tone of his writing and picking Nick as the narrator, we get a sense that Fitzgerald is speaking through Nick.  Not only does Nick provide a neutral lens through which to view the characters and their actions, it also seems that he occasionally voices Fitzgerald's own thoughts on New York society, which is that it occasionally has "a quality of distortion" (Fitzgerald 176).

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Fitzgerald's excessive use of imagery leads to detailed descriptions of expressions and scenes.  He uses symbolism in "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us"(Fitzgerald 180).  The green light symbolizes his dreams and how he fell just short of achieving
them. Another interesting symbol is the Doctor T.J Eckleburg billboard watching people as if it were judging them as God would.

The great gatsby article correlation

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The article "Letting go of the past helps us prepare for the future" discuses how change will happen randomly in our lives and we must be willing to let things flow how they are intended.  While resisting change may work out in the end, it tends to be detrimental to our physical and mental health, which is why we should simply accept whatever change comes and adapt to it.

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The article correlates to The Great Gatsby because Gatsby is a direct example of what happens when we won't let go of the past.  He comes back from the war thinking everything will be the same as when he left, even when faced with evidence that things have changed.  He tries to relive the past by "[coming] back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and [making] a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville on the last of his army pay"(Fitzgerald 152).   He spends the next 5 years dreaming about Daisy and seems to prove the point that "Seeking comfort in what once was may not be a fatal flaw, but finding shelter from our present reality within the confines of the past will never allow us to reach our full potential"(Smith 1).  By going to Louisville, Gatsby is attempting to shelter himself from reality but ultimately he will not find relief in the shelter of the past.

The Great Gatsby Theme analysis

The prevailing theme in The Great Gatsby is that people have a hard time escaping the past.  Gatsby is an example of this because he never lets go of Daisy even after she marries another man.  He is stuck in his fantasies of being rich with Daisy next to him because "he didn't realize just how extraordinary a 'nice' girl could be" (Fitzgerald 149).  He is convinced that Daisy is the key to richness, yet fails to see that he has already achieved wealth and should instead focus on himself rather than trying to complete the dreams of his youth.  Daisy is also an example of this because her past with Gatsby leads her to have an affair with him behind Tom's back. Since she was a child, she never had to deal with the consequences of her actions because the servants did that for her. She shows this mentality as an adult and never fully grows up.  When Daisy announces that she never loved Tom, she says it "as though she had never, all along" (Fitzgerald 132).  The characters get into bad situations because they never give up what happened in the past, allowing it to shape their future and in Gatsby's case his ultimate end.

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The Great Gatsby Characterization

Gatsby is a dynamic character because at the beginning he is mysterious and revels in the rumors that circle around about him.  Rumors such as "Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once"(Fitzgerald 44) emphasize how mysterious Gatsby is to the people around him.  The fantastic life he dreamed up for himself has become real and he's the person he want to be. By the end, Gatsby's past has been revealed and the life he dreamed up has been "broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice"(Fitzgerald 148).  Jay Gatsby exists only as long as no one suspects what lies behind him.  Gatsby becomes a desperate man and after meeting his father, the reader see that he never entirely became Jay Gatsby.  There was always a part of him that was James Gatz.

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The Great Gatsby figurative laguage analysis

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses several different types of figurative language to elevate his prose.  Two specific type of figurative language he employs are imagery and symbolism.  He uses two different types of imagery, auditory and visual.  Visual imagery is clearly noted in "wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square"(Fitzgerald 11).  In this passage, we get a clear sense of what is going on and how Tom uses his size to make people do what he wants them to do.  Auditory imagery is displayed in passages such as, "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again" (Fitzgerald 9).  Throughout the book, the characters say things ecstatically or irrelevantly; they demand and yawn.  From the way they talk, the reader is able to hear their voices and their different emotions.  Fitzgerald's symbolism is used to great effect when he refers to the poster of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.  Wilson states that "God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!"(Fitzgerald 159).  In this passage, Wilson was looking at the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg poster and telling his wife that even though she fooled him about her affair, God knew all. Throughout the book, Doctor T. J. Eckleburg is heavily alluded to be a representation for God.

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The Great Gatsby conflict

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In The Great Gatsby, the main protagonist is an optimistic bondsman named Nick who moves to East Egg, New York in the hopes of finding a good job but finds himself living next door to a very wealthy man named Gatsby who befriends him. While living there, he meets with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom.  After spending time with them, he begins to realize that they are dishonest people.  This is clearly noted when Jordan lies about leaving "a borrowed car in the rain" (Fitzgerald 57) and Nick notes that"she [is] incurably dishonest"(Fitzgerald 58).  This leads Nick to question their morality and starts judging them in his head, which he feels undermines what he was taught as a child, which was to not judge people until you know what they have been through.  This leads him to have conflict with himself that causes him to go between  judging people and accepting that they act this way for a reason.  This continues until a woman named Myrtle dies and he begins to realize that this is not the life style he wants to live.  He stays in East Egg a while longer but after certain murders happen, he decides it's time to change his life and moves back home.  By the time he has moved home, he has changed quite considerably in conduct and morality.  He used to treat people with patience and kindness but when he is preparing to go back home,  he runs into Tom.  When Tom asks him "Whats the matter, Nick? Do you object to shaking hands with me? [Nick replies] Yes, you know how I feel about you"(Fitzgerald 178).  This proves how Nick has changed because of their influence.

quotation analysis

In this passage, Fitzgerald is referring to how Tom and Wilson are realizing that their wives are untrue to them and these are Nick's thoughts on the matter: "it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound  as the difference between the sick and the well"(Fitzgerald 124).  Because Tom is from the upper class and Wilson is from the lower class, they are near opposites of each other and yet fall prey to the same dilemma of their wives cheating on them with another man.  Nick is noting that even though Tom comes from the rich, he still loses his wife because she is dissatisfied and dreams of romance whereas Wilson's wife cheats on him because she wants to be rich and looked up to.  The profound difference between the two men is that Tom's reaction is more composed and rational whereas Wilson becomes sick and unreasonable.  Wilson's reaction is probably caused by him taking the wedding vows very seriously and his wife is his most loved person.  Tom is more composed due to his attitude that he can fix anything with money or brute strength and sees his wife as a possession than a person.

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Fitzgerald illustrates "And what's more I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time"(Fitzgerald 131).  In this passage, Tom is defending his actions for having an affair with another woman, which is contradictory because he is saying he loves his wife yet he is messing around with other women.  Tom claims that he has moments of foolishness but offers no remorse for his actions.  Tom's double standard is quite easy to see because he can mess with other women but Daisy can't mess around with other men.

syntax analysis

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 "Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life"(Fitzgerald 35).  In this passage Fitzgerald utilizes antithesis to frame Carraway's perspective on the scene.  Because it is Carraway's perspective, the reader has a neutral lens from which to view the scenes which makes it easier for the reader to understand traits about the characters that would have otherwise been viewed with bias.  Fitzgerald also leaves out a comma in "yet high over the city our line of yellow windows...  he should have a comma between "city" and "our"between the two dependent clauses which would help the sentence flow smoother.  Because they are both dependent clauses, the reader will notice that without the comma it lacks the space in speech.   "Within and without" is being used to demonstrate that Carraway wanted to be accepted by the people he is watching but at the same time he is appalled at what actions the same people are doing and this results in him being conflicted on what he should do.

Fitzgerald's use of varying syntax helps give his work more depth or meaning by making the sentence structure for dialogue feel like everyday talking to when he is describing something in detail or adding suspense he uses different structures to have a desired affect on his writing.

Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby diction analysis

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Fitzgerald uses diction to characterize the way his cast speaks. Each and every character has their own way of speaking causing the characters to feel more life-like and less scripted.  Tom has a arrogant or boastful way of talking such as when he says "I've got a nice place here" when he is talking to Nick as if to say aren't I great? or look around it's mine.  Fitzgerald also uses an expansive vocabulary and outdated terms such as "rotogravure"(18) which must be understood by context instead of previously knowledge of the word.