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Beauty and the Beast... Loneliness

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"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

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"I had on a new plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind, and whenever this happened the red, white, and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and said TUT-TUT-TUT-TUT, in a disapproving way "

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"There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden "

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word from a sound associated with what is named

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“I’m paralyzed with happiness.” Pg. 9 ch. 1
She knows he knows she is using hyperbole or exaggeration. She isn't that happy to see him, but she is being flattering and witty.

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a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true. : a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true.

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Daisy looked at Tom frowning, and an indefinable expression, at once definitely unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable, as if I had only heard it described in words, passed over Gatsby’s face.

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Blinded by the glare of the headlights

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"above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust ... you perceive ... the eyes of Doctor. T.J. Eckleburg. The eyes ... are blue and gigantic -- their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose. ... But his eyes ... brood on over the solemn dumping ground." Pg. 23 ch. 2
The advertisement of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg’s eyes look through people as if it is a real human although it is solely an advertisement.

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"I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground."

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succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfsheim, forgetting the

more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy

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Imagery is language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader. Imagery includes figurative and metaphorical language to improve the reader’s experience through their senses.

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(P.40) "At least once a fornight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden."

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occruence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms

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“Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest…” Pg. 23 ch. 2
The cars crawling indicates that they were moving very slowly through all the dusts covering the paths and air. The cars are being personified.

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This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gar- dens

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A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek, and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car.

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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It is an expression comparing one thing with another, including the words "as" or "like":

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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