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Setting, characterization, Figurative Language, Dialogue, Possible themes,…
Setting
Set in Jazz Age New York. This novel tells a story about Jay Gatsby, who was a self-made millionaire. and his love for Daisy Buchanan who was a very wealthy woman.
characterization
Daisy Buchanan is Nicks cousin and is the women that Jay loves.She promised to wait for Gatsby. However, Tom Buchanan had asked her to marry him and she ended up not waiting for Jay.
Jordan Baker: Jordan is Daisies friend . She is beautiful, but very dishonest. She had cheatedso she could win a golf tournament.
Jay Gatsby is a very wealthy young man who lives in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He throws party's every Saturday night, however nobody knows who he really is or where he comes from or how he is so wealthy.
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Nick Carroway: Is the narrator. He is a young man from Minnesota who went to Yale and had fought in World War 1. After this he went to New York City to learn the bond business. He is Daisy's cousin and he befriended Jay Gatsby.
Figurative Language
An examples of a metaphor would be, "At 158th Street the cab stopped at one in a long white cake of apartment houses."
Personification: "Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, give out a ghastly creak and comes to rest."
symbolism: The valley of ashes that was between West Egg and New York City is on a land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. This represents social decay and how the rich indulge themselves with nothing but their own pleasure.
Dialogue
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"There are only pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
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Allusions
The name Midas is an allusion to the Greek god Midas, who turned everything he touched to gold.
Gatsby is portrayed as a representative of the "American Dream." Gatsby wants to have a perfect life and relive the past with Daisy but he can't relive the past.
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