"There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars." (pg 39)
The author uses a lot of imagery as well as other literary techniques that really help in describing the setting and tone of the story. I recognized several similes, metaphors, and large paragraphs full of description. Almost all of these described the setting. For example, Nick spends a great deal of time describing his new home. On page 5 he says that his house is an "eyesore". However, when Gatsby's home is described there are generally paragraphs explaining the beauty of the garden: "the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate", or the interior as "Marie Antoinette music-rooms and Restoration salons".(pg 91) The author also uses language to help characterize the different people in the story. For example, I think that the fact that Gatsby always says "old sport" after everything he says makes him seem really fake. At first it seems like a sign of friendship and closeness. However, around page 94 when Gatsby is speaking to Ewing (his butler I believe) he is very demanding and impatient yet he ends every sentence saying "old sport". I think this makes it seem less meaningful when he says it all the time.
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