The Great Gatsby Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” includes a passage littered with literary devices and imagery describing thematic and symbolic elements on a psychological and moral level. To begin, Fitzgerald’s usage of rhyme “but that’s no matter–to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther(Fitzgerald)” helps to illustrate the theme of hard work and always striving to achieve the “dream”, despite how the the future looks, “year by year reced[ing] us”. Also, the author uses alliteration “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly” to emphasize the symbol of a boat struggling against the current, similarly to gatsby retracing steps and trying to fix mistakes from the past. On the other hand, imagery of the “green light”