What are your impressions of Gatsby and his party? How does the writer convey these impressions?
In the wake of the First World War, America entered a ‘party mentality’, a nationwide lifestyle of fun and spending. Throughout the extract, the writer has given the audience a magnificent and wealthy impression towards Gatsby and his parties. He has created his impression by using long lists, adjectives and the repeated use of the pronoun ‘his’.
Fitzgerald’s use of long lists make Gatsby’s party appear large and grand. In the third paragraph of the extract, it says: ‘ ...but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones, and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums.’ Between each instrument in the list, he uses the conjunction
