Nick Crosses The Queensboro Bridge Metaphorical Language

F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the first sight of New York City as a miracle of human engineering (Page 68). He illustrates the city as a “beauty in the world” and describes it magnificently. Through the use of rhetoric, Fitzgerald portrays the concept of the American Dream, one of the many themes that exist in the novel. As Nick crosses the Queensboro Bridge, Fitzgerald utilizes metaphorical language to expose the concept of the American Dream as it exists in the novel. As Nick crosses “the great bridge” and sees the “city rising up across the river,” Fitzgerald displays that the city is a place where one could move up the social ladder and fulfill his or her American Dream of becoming rich. By describing the city as a “wild promise of all the