The Great Gatsby - Stylistic Devices
Chapter One
In Chapter One, F. Scott Fitzgerald mainly uses detail to introduce the setting and
characters. For example, when introducing the main setting of the book, he describes his house as
squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. (9). One
of these houses was Gatsby's. This detail gives the reader an idea of what kind of town this was,
and what kind of people lived in it. Fitzgerald also uses detail to introduce characters. When
introducing Daisy, one of the main characters, he says that she had bright eyes and a bright
passionate mouth with an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to
forget... (14). These details show that Daisy is obviously a character hard to forget,
foreshadowing future events with her in the book. When he first mentions Gatsby he describes
him saying "if personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures then there was something......
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