In F.Scott Fitzgerald book The Great Gatsby gave insight on to how some people lived in the 1920’s in America. The book is from the point of view of a man named Nick Carraway who came from Chicago to New York and moved in next to Jay Gatsby. Its the story of how he got to know Gatsby and what he experienced in that time. The lavish and extravagant parties that Gatsby threw and what happened during them and the life he lived outside of them. As his friendship with Gatsby evolved he finds a connection that Gatsby has with Nick's cousin Daisy and the love they shared. He watches as Gatsby tries to recreate the past love he had with Daisy and realising that it's going to be harder to do then he imagined.
In the book The Great Gatsby a big part of the story line would be the setting. The setting of New York in the 1920’s and the great parties that were thrown and trouble that found people at that time. It shows how there were many different type of places in and around the city like differences in West Egg where Nick and Gatsby live and East Egg where daisy lived right across the river. They lived 20 miles away from New York off the coast on two land masses divided by a bay that looked identical and like a pair of enormous eggs. While on the outside they looked the same the people that lived there were very different.Nick described them as “I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two [...]. Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittere along the water.” In Between the city and the Eggs is a place called the valley of ashes Nick describes it as “a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens;where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” The setting made the book memorable in the way that it was described you felt like you were really there and could see what the characters could see and imaging what was going on.
The language in The Great Gatsby was very descriptive. Especially during party scenes like “The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun,and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music,and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.” The author uses these words to convey the extravagance of the event.He also describes emotion through words very well. In example the author writes “Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping, broken sobs,and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano.” Using phrases like “gasping,broken sobs” the author gives a clear image to the reader in how she's feeling and makes it so descriptive that you don't only imagine what she looks like but you can almost hear her crying. When reading the author draws out his sentences and can communicate how overwhelmed nick is feeling by making the sentence a borderline run on sentence. In the second sentence he uses it to contrast to the other people because all around the girl the people are happy but she's sobbing and sad.
Throughout the story most of plot is made up of character development and the decisions the characters make. The book starts out with Nick being new in New York and all alone until he reconnects with Daisy and her husband and meets her friend. Events leading to Gatsby inviting him to a party. Through out the book Nick’s opinion of various people especially Gatsby changes a lot. In the end what he thought was “No--Gatsby turned out alright at the end;it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.” This shows that in the beginning Nick didn't know what to think of him and over time he grew to like him even if he wasn't as great as he portrayed himself he wasn't all that bad. In fact Gatsby was more of a victim than anyone else.
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