syntax analysis

"Sweepstakes/Contests: Your Winning Daily Pick." Top 10 Most Depressing Cities. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr.             2015.

 "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.