Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Great Gatsby

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Throughout The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald makes use of numbers of literary devices. He uses them to give a deeper meanings of his novel as well as to make the text more captivating. Most frequently enrolled by Fitzgerald are the first one is foreshadowing. Foreshadow is where future events in a story, or maybe the outcome, are told by the author before they happen. • “So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight” (136)
This statement foreshadows Myrtle‟s death and the death of Gatsby‟s dream. The next one is irony - where an event occurs in an unexpected manners, in the sense that it is somehow in illogical or imitate opposition to what would be expected or suitable. • Wolfsheirn‟s characterization as Jewish, yet