A technique that Fitzgerald uses a lot in his works is simile. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby throws many parties to impress the love of his life Daisy, the lights are very bright in his house so he uses this simile "in his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whispers" (Hendrickson , Styles Par 3). This simile exemplifies how bright Gatsby's house is and how it can attract people from all over the place, just like moths to a bright light. Fitzgerald continued to use insects in his similes with this example, Fitzgerald describes Gatsby's car as "running like a lively yellow bug" (Hendrickson's, Styles Par 3). Fitzgerald's description compares Gatsby's car to a yellow bug that runs and helps. This is a very unique example because it includes two similes; these similes help the reader get a metaphorical picture of Amory and the fact that she drank too much at the party. Amory has two main loves in her life. Once again Fitzgerald uses the unique way of having two similes in The Last Tycoon's Love. “Under the moon the back was…like the torn picture books of childhood, like fragments of stories dancing in an open fire” (Hendrickson's, Styles Par 3). These similarities are important because they portray that Hollywood for Stahr was no different from childhood because during his childhood he had the ability to create magic in his films and now the only difference is that he creates that magic in Hollywood (Hendrickson's, StylesFitzgerald could employ similar techniques in all of his novels; however he uses some very different techniques that are only used in one or two of his works. In The Great Gatsby, he uses the technique of repetition which Fitzgerald refers to the repeated careless driving in his characters lack of responsibility in the character For example, one of the main characters in this novel called Owl Eyes leaves Gatsby's driveway and ends up "in the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently stripped of a wheel" (Hendrickson's, Styles). Par). 4). Unlike Owl Eyes, who fortunately does not harm anyone in the accident, “Myrtle Wilson has her life violently snuffed out” (Hendrickson's, Styles Par 4), by one of Fitzgerald's main characters named Daisy who has not even slowed down. for Mirto. In this same novel, one of the characters, named Jordan Baker, drives so recklessly and crashes into someone that he ends up knocking off a button on his jacket. Fitzgerald not only uses the repetition of reckless driving to show people's lack of responsibility, but also uses the repetition of the color green to show a
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