Rhetorical Analysis Of The Great Gatsby

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People enjoy themselves at parties, where they indulge in the extravagance and stupor of the of the night, but in the morning they have a hangover regretting the night before. The American dream is such a party as it moves individual to enjoy and strive towards their daydream of success and luxury. However, just like the hangover in the morning, the cold reality often contrasts such unrealistic expectations. Writing in the first-person view of Nick Carraway allows Fitzgerald greater expression in building the attitude of his sentimental narrator, Nick Carraway. F.Scott Fitzgerald uses the rhetorical device of irony, imagery, and metaphor in the form of Nick’s thoughts to convey and build Nick’s sense of lost towards Gatsby and the American Dream. …show more content…
After the death of Gatsby, Nick walks through the yard of the grand house which once allured and impressed him only to find it depressing “I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more” ( Fitzgerald). Fitzgerald uses the rhetorical device of irony to show Nick’s disillusionment towards the house and the American Dream. Fitzgerald contrasts the disassociation towards the facade of the grand parties with the cold aftermath that follows such events; building an irony that reveals the daydream like state the lost generation lives in. The irony also builds a poetic moment where Nick gains a sort of enlightenment towards the fictitious grandeur of the city and emphasize the sense of lost that Nick must face, now that he knows the
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