The Great Gatsby Rhetorical Analysis Essay
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Simon Leppicello
Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Hour 6
3/26/15
The Many Faces of Jay Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Gatsby, has many different sides of his character, which are shown in different parts throughout the novel. The reader understands him to be a very versatile man who feels emotion deeply, but doesn’t show it on the outside nearly as much as he should. Gatsby meets a man named Nick who moves in next to him and becomes the narrator of Gatsby’s great story. Nick helps the reader understand what is happening and conveys the judgmental tone and social stratified theme through his detailed descriptions of Gatsby’s character using diction, detail and syntax. When Nick first met Jay Gatsby, he …show more content…
Nick describes Gatsby’s gaze as: “It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey”(52). This quote explains that Jay Gatsby was very fond of interacting with other people. He was a man that liked to be what society expected of him and seemed to almost change with the different people he spoke with. He was always very elegant and regal and he inspired hope and confidence in others. Nick was no exception. Just from this brief meeting, Nick felt much more confident and superior than he had ever been before in his life. Nick judged Gatsby harsher than most people he met because Gatsby was many things that Nick was not, but when Nick finally sees himself as the wealthy and confident man that Jay Gatsby sees him as, his mind opens up. Mr. Fitzgerald seemed to write this line in the novel because it was what everybody wanted to be during that era: wealthy, confident, and looked up
Simon Leppicello
Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Hour 6
3/26/15
The Many Faces of Jay Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Gatsby, has many different sides of his character, which are shown in different parts throughout the novel. The reader understands him to be a very versatile man who feels emotion deeply, but doesn’t show it on the outside nearly as much as he should. Gatsby meets a man named Nick who moves in next to him and becomes the narrator of Gatsby’s great story. Nick helps the reader understand what is happening and conveys the judgmental tone and social stratified theme through his detailed descriptions of Gatsby’s character using diction, detail and syntax. When Nick first met Jay Gatsby, he …show more content…
Nick describes Gatsby’s gaze as: “It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey”(52). This quote explains that Jay Gatsby was very fond of interacting with other people. He was a man that liked to be what society expected of him and seemed to almost change with the different people he spoke with. He was always very elegant and regal and he inspired hope and confidence in others. Nick was no exception. Just from this brief meeting, Nick felt much more confident and superior than he had ever been before in his life. Nick judged Gatsby harsher than most people he met because Gatsby was many things that Nick was not, but when Nick finally sees himself as the wealthy and confident man that Jay Gatsby sees him as, his mind opens up. Mr. Fitzgerald seemed to write this line in the novel because it was what everybody wanted to be during that era: wealthy, confident, and looked up