great gatsby - theme of success

The Great Gatsby Success

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s detailed descriptions of the landscapes in The Great Gatsby, which use several rhetorical devices, emphasize the theme of success. The rhetorical devices reveal more about this theme as they add style, clarity, and effectiveness to the writing. Both the ideas of being successful as well as unsuccessful are conveyed by Fitzgerald through the different landscapes. The description of Louisville, Gatsby’s mansion, and Gatsby’s funeral highlight the success that Gatsby achieved.
Fitzgerald’s description of Gatsby and Daisy in Louisville show Gatsby’s success early in his life. Fitzgerald describes Gatsby’s fascination with Daisy in this Louisville setting through effective diction and imagery. The imagery used in the description Daisy’s mansion provides the reader with a better idea of what he wanted in his life. The mansion amazed Gatsby with its “ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beaut...