By Marciano Guerrero
This research includes elements. First, we are going to argue that NYC didn't corrupt the characters offered within the novel. moment, we’ll exhibit the writing strategies that F. Scott Fitzgerald hired to depict his characters and their surroundings. the nice Gatsby will suffer just because F. Scott Fitzgerald created a literary archetype: Jay Gatsby. whereas many nice writers in attaining transitority status, in basic terms writers who invent archetypes will suffer everlasting status, and during this appreciate Jay Gatsby will sign up for the pantheon of heroes the place we discover: Heathcliff, Tarzan, Holly Golightly, Lolita, Mr. Darcy, Gregor Samsa, and Holden Caulfield—among others.
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Or, Is he Bisexual? Essay 3 — Daisy Buchanan: No Golden Girl but a Master of Echolalia and Deceit Essay 4 — Purple Prose and Objective Correlatives in the Great Gatsby Essay 5 — F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Style: Carpentry, Pulleys, and Scaffolding Essay 1 — Introduction to the Great Gatsby While volumes of criticism and book reviews have been written on The Great Gatsby, nowhere have I read any allusions to the fact that the all the main players in the story are morally degraded and of low intelligence—or to be charitable: mediocre.
Yet, Nick in his zeal to create a sedate and lyrical atmosphere comes close to writing purple prose. Immediately in the same scene, Nick switches from the lofty to the mundane, by focusing on Tom Buchanan’s boots, and from boots to hair and muscles: “The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with flutter of slender muscles in her arms” (Chapter 1, 22). Exteriors T. S. ” Edgar Allan Poe opens his short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” with a description of the exterior of Usher’s house, which in effect is the objective correlative of the subjective feelings and sentiments that will grip the characters mentioned in the story: “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing along, on horseback, through the singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
How can readers believe narrated events that the witness narrator hasn’t experienced? So, in some instances he uses the technique —novelistic journalism— that Truman Capote was years later to master in his book In Cold Blood. In some sections he becomes a ventriloquist, manipulating the related events by using the voice of characters such as Jordan and Michaelis. Nick also commits the sin of omission. What is disgusting is that in the end, Nick doesn't denounce his cousin Daisy, even though he's privy to the knowledge that Daisy was the driver that fated night, and that Daisy kills Myrtle Wilson (Tom's mistress).
