Examples Of Non Verbal Cues In The Great Gatsby

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Communication is an essential part of nature. Humans have adopted and became a custom to language as a part of our daily social lives. Verbal communication is used since day one; exchanging information as babies to our guardians when were in displeasure can even be a form of communicating. Being social is something that will never parish, thus being so important in our lives, it is nearly impossible to go a day without some sort of communication being shared. Even though everyone has different traits of the amount of socialness one might have, being shy and not being very social, can still give off certain communication cues that others can knowledge. There are non-verbal cues and visual aspects to help us communicate better and help us understand …show more content…

Since she did not come, he was upset and not in the typical party mood as everyone in the crowd feels. This sentence is stating how all the women are falling into men’s arms because they were in an aroused, and excited state after the song has finished. However, Gatsby was not, and no one dared to even touch his shoulder. Even though it’s stated in the novel, one can imagine and picture this scene. Gatsby’s non-verbal cues that we can picture, including an avoidance to a shoulder embrace; (pg.238) a half embrace is used in male–female romantic relationships as well as to signify buddies in male–male relationships (Knapp et al., 2014). We can also picture the guests non-verbal cues regarding to personal space, and how it’s being communicated between one another in this sentence as well. Since Gatsby lives in a high density city located in NYC, his parties and guests can reflect the nature of which these people are used to. This can also reflect within their interpersonal space. It seems to be that these guests are very close to each other, comfortably. It mentions in chapter five of Knapp, Hall, and Horgan (2014), it mentions how city dwellers are often exposed to an overload of information (pg. 131). Which can explain as to why these people are so close in their personal space, but unlike Gatsby, his non-verbal behavior signaled that he did not want to be close to

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