FITZGERALD'S MASTER OF MOOD

Fitzgerald's Master of Mood

Fitzgerald's Master of Mood

Rhetorical device and resource of language is a way to describe the words and speech, or any other writing to become persuasive and make it attractive for listeners and readers. These devices help to construct the sentences and bring emotions into their speech or words. To give impression and to make listeners and readers attentive these devices play a vital role. There are several different rhetorical devices that speakers, debater, and writer use according to their strength. It differs from writer to the writer that what device would be used by which writers in order to, make their writings and speeches persuasive. These are some special techniques to create beauty in writing and speech (Brendan, 2007).

Gatsby represents the world of the ostentatious newly rich; however, he remains a romantic idealist. Right from the beginning, the reader learns of Gatsby's “extraordinary gift for hope [and] a romantic readiness” that Nick has never before witnessed in another human being. He is a paradox: the righteous bootlegger. He used Anaphora that is the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and parallelism (Surhone, 2007).

Nick Carraway, the narrator, is an idealistic midwestern salesman of stocks and bonds, trying to make a go of it on Wall Street. The entire story filtered through Nick and his vision of Gatsby. It is significant that Fitzgerald chooses to write The Great Gatsby in the past tense; indeed, the story relayed entirely through memory, which is, of course, selective. The lines between truth and fiction blurred, and, essentially, the reader must become a participant within the text; he or she must separate the lies from the truth in order to glean the true meaning. Illusion versus ...