What stands out to you most in your first experience with The Great Gatsby? Be sure to include a quote in your response.
It really stood out to me the way the author writes, he uses a lot of detail and stacks up words on top of each other in a paragraph. He is also good at describing the characters by having different situations. For example, we get to meet Tom, Daisy, and Jordan Baker because of the time he went to have dinner at Tom and Daisy's mansion in the East egg. We get to know their characters and figure out who they are by what they say, how they act around other characters and just what they do. The author uses great detail to describe a moment, sensory details.
In the beginning of page 7 and beginning of 8 he says, "We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea."
By this sensory detail we get to almost see, and feel and be at the place he is describing.
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