The Great Gatsby Diction Analysis

To continue, both authors use diction as a way to differentiate the academic power of different characters and display how their intelligence impacts their lives. Diction is displayed by both authors to convey the way people talked in the past compared to others based on their social class. Twain uses slang to demonstrate how slaves talked because of their inferior level of knowledge. “‘[Jim]Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin.’” (Twain, 5). Slaves were not educated at the time and were mistreated because they were not viewed as regular people who needed an education. Twain is stereotyping black and white people
This is satirical because Jim was capable of escaping slavery and fooled everybody. He was viewed as a white man on the inside because of his attitude and personality with Huck. Huck realizes that Jim does not deserve to be disrespected and he wants to free Jim from slavery. Additionally, Fitzgerald does the same in his book. He makes the character’s speak very differently based on their social class to display the differences of education and care given to each. “To them a man who talked after this fashion was either raving drunk or raving crazy” (Fitzgerald, 298). The lower class men are taunting the upper class man for speaking in an educated manner; whereas, the intellectual is treating the inferiors as superiors making it ironic. This is satirical because Fitzgerald uses verbal irony to convey the maturity of the social classes. Fitzgerald is stereotyping the lower class as immature and foolish, compared to the higher class who is mature and respectful. As well, Twain shows that the upper class has superiority over the lower class, regardless of the intellectual level or age; even if the slave was right, he was viewed as wrong. “[Huck] I see it warn’t no use wasting words—you can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I