| Grotesque |
|
Pg. 169 “He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.” -The
word Grotesque is used here as describing how the rose looked. Pg. 105 “But his heart was in a consistent, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.” -Here Fitzgerald uses the word Grotesque, as describing the nightmares Gatsby was experiencing. -In
my opinion, I think that the word was used on page 169 to express his
thoughts on a real life nightmare that Gatsby was experiencing, while on
page 105 it was only a nightmare of the mind. Beth Herdmann
|