Great Gatsby Adjectives

F. Scott Fitzgerald purposefully uses his self-named “double-vision” to describe setting, characterization, and values across the events of the three nights; he does this by using vivid adjectives and descriptions. In Chapter 1, the first specific night the reader is introduced to is Tom Buchanan’s party. This party only has 4 physical guest and a “fifth guest” on the telephone. The atmosphere is described as “tense” and racist discussions “broke out… violently”. Dichotomizing this is Gatsby’s party in the 3rd chapter. The narrator informs the reader that “[He] had been actually invited”, while other “[p]eople were not invited- they went there” (ch. 3; pg. 41). Here people talked “confidently” and “triumphantly”. The party is described as “intimate” and “jovial”, and has an orchestra playing jazz. These contrasting adjectives
The majority of chapter 1, where Tom is present, uses many light based diction and syntax. On page 13, Daisy “wink[ed] ferociously toward the fervent sun”. This periodic syntax leads the reader to focus on the “fervent sun”. This chapter uses many more light based descriptors, such as “the sunny porch”, “bright eyes” “bright passionate mouth”, having “candles” on the table, and the room “bloomed with light”. Contrarily, Jay Gatsby is described with more night oriented adjectives. At the end of chapter 1, Nick sees Gatsby with his arms stretched toward the “dark water”, and he disappears to leave Nick alone in the “unquiet darkness”. In chapter 3, Gatsby appears after the narrator states that “the moon has risen higher”. In real life, the moon gets its light from the sun, and these descriptions could symbolize something that Jay Gatsby wants from Tom Buchanan. Undoubtedly, the author purposefully uses these adjectives to dichotomize and describe these two characters, both of whom are pertinent to the