![]() ![]() The use of gaudy colours and listing of excessively indulgent goods in the description of Gatsby’s house aid the narration of the story, and depict the setting in a overly extravagant negative tone. ![]() The fact that the people come and go like tides emphasises the materialism and superficiality of the guests, as they only come for the parties, which has the effect of making the reader view this social class in a negative, unimportant light. ![]() The line ‘At high tide I watched his guests diving from the tower’ could suggest the ocean symbolises the lifestyle of the guests as oceans are associated with restlessness, power and constantly moving. Moreover, the imagery of the ocean and tides can be seen to highlight the cyclical nature of the party’s, and the restless, to an extent nomadic lifestyle of the Upper class in the 1920s. The fact that Fitzgerald chooses to relate the wealthy upper class to common bugs could suggest Nick’s judgemental attitude against this lifestyle, which again reminds the reader Nick is not an omnibenevolent narrator, and possibly and device used to express Fitzgerald’s personal social criticisms. The simile ‘men and girls came and went like moths’ thus presents the guests as being restless and constantly moving, a reoccurring theme in the novel. ![]() Fitzgerald uses the descriptive imagery in the opening paragraph of the chapter to emphasise the restlessness and drifting nature of the guests that attend Gatsby’s party. Written from Nick’s perspective, the chapter contains key motifs and events that provide an opportunity for Fitzgerald to express his social criticisms of the era and class the novel is set it. ?How does Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter 3 of ‘The Great Gatsby’? Fitzgerald uses chapter 3 as a means of introducing Gatsby into the narrative, and introducing key themes into the novel that ultimately lead to Gatsby’s downfall. ![]()
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