The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When I
came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on
fire” (Fitzgerald, 81). As I have read The
Great Gatsby, I have noticed that Fitzgerald’s writing style appears
friendly and easy-going. Those descriptions also happen to match the narrator:
Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald’s diction is simple and understandable. It does contain
a sense of sophistication, though. His imagery, the words that create a picture
in the mind, is also simple. It allows the reader to come up with a more
personal image rather than Wharton’s imagery. Wharton’s imagery was very
descriptive and was concise. There was a set image and the reader could not
venture far from it. Fitzgerald allows the reader to open his mind and create
more than what he describes. Most of the sentences are long, but they flow very
well. The dialogue seems to use more common words and phrases than Wharton’s
dialogue. Fitzgerald’s dialogue and diction was simple and could be easily read
and understood by people with a little education.
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