The Great Gatsby Figurative Language

In the mid 1920's, the American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote The Great Gatsby. It was not out of the blue to use words to describe African American people that nowadays would be taken offensively and people would get hostile about. Mainly the whole purpose of using such these harmful and abusive words were to classify African Americans as objects, and not as human beings. When Nick describes the "two Bucks" and a Negro girl passing them in a horse-drawn carriage with a white chauffeur he thinks to himself "Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridgeŠanything at allŠ" This shows how people in Fitzgerald's time reacted to free black families.

When Nick talks about the black men, he describes them as “Bucks" because