Reflection On The Great Gatsby

In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he explains how diction used between characters show how the American dream in the 1920s started to fade away. Throughout the book many different types of characters have been introduced to the readers and the way Fitzgerald writes and the way the characters in the book speak. A reader can understand how what they are doing relates back to the 1920s. One of the main characters in the story is an example of a person that represents the rich, in the 1920s. A main character is Gatsby, “Mr. Gatsby, it was a mansion. Inhibited by a gentleman of that name” (Fitzgerald 5). The way that it is written, using the word gentleman gives a higher ranking to someone. If it was a man of a lower status, the writer would not use such a proper title. Gatsby in the beginning of the book is shown as a very proud figure, but toward the end of the of the book is broken down. This can be shown when Tom starts

Mr. And Mrs. Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Live in the city of ashes. “Wilson?...He’s so dumb…” (Fitzgerald 26). Even though there are no strong use of words, what is said gives the readers an understanding that this person isn’t very smart. When Tom went down to the city he described an adolescent as, “a gray scrawny Italian child” (Fitzgerald 26). The diction used of the child is to represent the City of Ashes. Diction is used in multiple ways when describing the valley of ashes and the people that live there.

In the book, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, diction is not only representative of how people brought down the American dream in the 1920s, but also the places in which the characters in the story lived. The diction in this story helps the reader get a better understanding of the book. Readers can also see how everything seemed to be nice in the 1920s, but in fact it was not. Don’t let what others view you as affect how you