Analysis of the Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is concentrated with wonderfully written content. F. Scott Fitzgerald does a superb job of synthesizing the content together with his uniquely distinctive style. A couple of the devices he utilizes to fuse his work together are his extensive use of imagery and symbolism. These two devices alone are enough for Fitzgerald to convey his several themes that he wants the reader to comprehend by the end of the novel.
Fitzgerald utilizes language that is full of images- concrete verbal pictures appealing to the senses. There is water imagery in descriptions of the rain, Long Island Sound, and the swimming pool at Gatsby‘s mansion. Somewhere in the midst of all that imagery Fitzgerald manages to make good use of symbolism.
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