An analysis from a passage of The Great Gatsby

Bolding, Sara
English 102
Monday 3 – 5:45

An Analysis of a Passage form Fitzgerald’s
“The Great Gatsby”


The three paragraphs from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” are presented in the middle of the novel. This passage comes just as the story starts to get interesting. Preceding this passage Gatsby and Daisy are again seeing each other for the first time in five years and we are hearing how they reacted. The passage shows us the opinion and regard that the narrator has for Gatsby. The arrangement of the comparisons, diction and judgement of Gatsby makes this evident.
Gatsby has told Nick about his life and now Nick is telling the readers how he sees Gatsby’s life. The first paragraph we see Gatsby as a young boy and how he grew up. In the second paragraph, we see Gatsby as a young man and how he went from day to day. In the third paragraph, we see Gatsby now. Nick explains to us what Gatsby goes through every night. This passage...