Great Gatsby 5

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in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s description of Gatsby’s mansion is a perfect example of this. “The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard- it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion.” Throughout the novel Fitzgerald uses this type of description to put the reader into the story and give them a realistic sense of the time period.
Not only do the words themselves paint pictures, but also the structure and form used is a delight. “…Every line of hard and intelligent effort” (Mencken 148). The incredible part about this is that Fitzgerald does not do it too elaborately where the reader will get lost, but “written in sentences one can understand which is a comfort” (Stein 149). Fitzgerald has written a complete novel which is ...

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