Write a critical discussion of passage A from The Great Gatsby

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                                Barrie Panayi

 Unit three: “Contemporary Study”, Item Two.                                                        Write a critical discussion of passage A

        In passage A the reader is introduced to the heat of the novel “Already it was deep summer” this heightens the tension by the imagery of a “deep summer” because deep and summer is not usually words that are associated with each other. This is perhaps to prepare the readers for the entrance of Gatsby. Weather is a theme throughout the novel. This is shown in chapter 7 were the weather conditions were extreme “warmest of the summer” and is used here to heighten tension. Than the passage goes on to comment on the “new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light” which is reference to the American dream by showing “pools of light” which illustrates the hope there was that was there for it to succeed and the ultimate failure of it because it was materialistically surrounded by “new” things i.e. by cars which show in the novel destructiveness of modern society. They are also a major theme throughout the novel in a bad sense shown when Myrtle was run over “Death car”.

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        Weather is shown again “The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night...” which displays the calming of the weather in preparation for the appearance of Gatsby. Fitzgerald also wanted to create a mysterious surrounding to convey that Gatsby is a mysterious man “...moonlight...” demonstrates this and is symbolic of the romantic imagination associated with reverie and the desire for an unattainable goal (Gatsby’s dream). The sentence also is a contrast to the preceding sentence because it concentrates on naturalistic images which the chapter carries on to do “...wings beating in trees and a persistent organ sound as the ...

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