The Great Gatsby Style Analysis Essay
For this analysis, I chose an intriguing article titled, Style as Politics in The Great Gatsby, written by Janet Giltrow and David Stouck. This article has taken a formal and vivid look into the syntax on the sentence level. This technic decodes the, who, what, where, when and how the sentences translate the words into the story. Also the in-depth meaning of the style in which the story is written. They utilized discourse analysis and linguistic pragmatics to discover the meaning beyond the obvious written context of the words. Inspiration for the article is motivated by context differentials of word positions on a political base. First, they situated the words in a native historical reference. Then examined the certain way the narrator,
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The levels of social classes, desire to elevate social status and ultimately paint the picture of “The American Dream” is one of the prime focal points of the article but is not the sole purpose of the article. The writers of this article wanted to elaborate on the way F. Scott Fitzgerald utilized illustrative words to bring the reader into the novel, love and hate the characters and understand what is going on without utilizing crude vernacular such as “Myrtle got drunk” but instead paints the picture of the scene without forcing to the point. In continuation of the illustrative words, the way the characters were painted was conducted in such a way that you as the reader “observes” the character flaws, feelings, and overall background which may not ever be described to the full extent of detail that is often conducted for main characters but instead it is done enough to put shape into the characters instead of portraying them as flat, two-dimensional add-ons placed into the novel to fill up space. The writer has also been found to point out how society, people of various social classes, and ultimately how life was portrayed to be in his period of life. Ultimately, Janet Giltrow and David Stouck wanted to write this article to point out certain nuances and complexities of the literature
The levels of social classes, desire to elevate social status and ultimately paint the picture of “The American Dream” is one of the prime focal points of the article but is not the sole purpose of the article. The writers of this article wanted to elaborate on the way F. Scott Fitzgerald utilized illustrative words to bring the reader into the novel, love and hate the characters and understand what is going on without utilizing crude vernacular such as “Myrtle got drunk” but instead paints the picture of the scene without forcing to the point. In continuation of the illustrative words, the way the characters were painted was conducted in such a way that you as the reader “observes” the character flaws, feelings, and overall background which may not ever be described to the full extent of detail that is often conducted for main characters but instead it is done enough to put shape into the characters instead of portraying them as flat, two-dimensional add-ons placed into the novel to fill up space. The writer has also been found to point out how society, people of various social classes, and ultimately how life was portrayed to be in his period of life. Ultimately, Janet Giltrow and David Stouck wanted to write this article to point out certain nuances and complexities of the literature