Also in chapter 3 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald continues his use of similes and metaphors. He mainly uses metaphors to describe situations that Carraway is currently in. Carraway uses similes as a tool to describe what he sees, hears, and feels. Here Fitzgerald has Nick using a metaphor to describe the guests at Gatsby's parties:
Joe Frisco
"Suddenly one of these gypsies, in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air..." (Fitzgerald, 41).
Fitzgerald has Carraway using this metaphor to show how Gatsby's guests are exotic and how Gatsby's parties are exciting and very extravagant. Fitzgerald also uses an abundance of similes. Again he has Carraway using them to describe what he sees, hears, and feels.
"...dumps it down for courage and, moving her hands like Frisco, dances out alone on the canvas platform," (Fitzgerald, 41).
Fitzgerald uses these similes to express the evening. In this instance he is using an allusion and a metaphor. Frisco was an actor in the 1920s who made his debut in the 1918 Follies.
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