1) "It amazed him — he had never been in such a beautiful house before. but what gave it an air of breathless intensity, was that Daisy lived there — it was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him."
-What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader in this quote is that the characters Daisy and Jay Gatsby were from separate worlds. He says that Daisy is comfortable in her big house and that the character, Gatsby, was comfortable in his tent. He uses this simile as a comparison of the difference between their status in society and how big of a breech it is. The author says that she is the one who breathes air into the house and makes it a home because she is so in tune with her world that is different from Gatsby’s.
2)"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning ——"
3)"He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night."
- What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader in this quote through the narrator, Nick, is that the character, Gatsby, is always described as always looking back instead of into the future, but he has actually not been looking back. He says that the character, Gatsby, had already put the past that he was accused of with Daisy was already behind him, but he never knew he had put it past him. The author uses imagery to open the readers mind and describe that Gatsby had left his past way behind him before he even came for Daisy.
4)"It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete."
- What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader in this quote is that the circle of killings was a massacre. The author tells through the narrator, Nick’s, eyes is that the deaths were like the holocaust killings because the deaths were senseless with Wilson’s suicide in the end. It started with Myrtle’s unintentional death, and then it continued with Mr. Gatsby’s murder and ended with Myrtle’s husband, Wilson, committing suicide to complete the circle of senseless killings that shouldn’t have occurred.
5)"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . ."
- What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader in this quote is that the characters Daisy and Tom are snobby people who don’t care who they harm. He says that they are shallow people who do what they want without thought to how their actions are going to hurt the people they involve in their shenanigans. They wreak havoc on people and things, they hide behind their money and position in society, and then they expect other people to clean up their messes for them. He believes these characters to be shallow human beings that are flighty and only care for their selves.
- What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader in this quote is that we are always running to escape the past and that if we don’t face it then we can never reach our future. He says that Gatsby was one of the people looking in the past and never able to look to the future because he was stuck behind. The author says that one day we will end up catching up to the future that we will grasp, but we have to work for it and not give up.
-What the author, F. Scotts Fitzgerald, is trying to persuade the reader in this quote is that the characters Daisy and Jay Gatsby were from separate worlds. He says that Daisy is comfortable in her big house and that the character, Gatsby, was comfortable in his tent. He uses this simile as a comparison of the difference between their status in society and how big of a breech it is. The author says that she is the one who breathes air into the house and makes it a home because she is so in tune with her world that is different from Gatsby’s.
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