How Does Gatsby Tell the Story in Chapter 8

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How does Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter 8? Fitzgerald uses multiple narratives to cover the complete storyline over chapter 8. Furthermore, descriptive language is used to contrast settings, and romanticized language helps create the novels climax. Fitzgerald reveals the truth about Gatsby's past using narrative description and anecdotes. Gatsby uses dialogue to disclose to Nick the "strange story of his youth" and how Daisy was the "first 'nice' girl he had ever known". He describes using an anecdote that he had "never seen such a beautiful house" with "a ripe mystery about it", "mystery" suggesting the delirious edge he found intriguing. However, it is the colossal emphasis that Gatsby puts on Daisy, finding her "excitingly desirable" that fascinates Nick. Nicks admiration for Gatsby grows during chapter 9 as Gatsby's love is reinforced as he explains, "he didn't realise just how extraordinary a 'nice' girl could be". The description of Gatsby's mansion is juxtaposed to the hyperbolic opulence Nick uses to describe it in Chapter 3. Instead, there is an "inexplicable amount of dust everywhere" and the rooms are "musty" as Nick believes "they hadn't been aired for many days". As opposed to arriving as a partygoer, Nick arrives to comfort Gatsby who sits "down gloomily" after they sit "smoking out into the darkness". Fitzgerald draws attention to the gloomy setting to reinforce the atmosphere Nick feels in the house as Gatsby still Gatsby "couldn't possibly leave Daisy". Fitzgerald narrates Wilson’s journey to find the yellow car using a multiple perspective. During chapter 8 the scene changes from Gatsby’s mansion to Wilson’s garage, throughout the night of Myrtle’s death Wilson grows “quitter and begins to talk about the yellow car”. The setting is “dull” and the workbench is “stained from where the body had been lying” creating an uneasy

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