In the world of writing, novelists tend to use many literary devices to present the reading audience with an idea about a particular person, place, or thing in their novel . Since literary devices can be installed intentionally or unintentionally, authors tend to leave it up to the audience to decide whether or not it was a choice or just a coincidence. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, many literary devices can be seen, but the idea of foreshadowing particularly attracts attention. Foreshadowing can be defined as a warning or indication of a possible future event. In The Great Gatsby, this literary device can be seen throughout the novel as a clue leading to events that would occur later. In this novel, foreshadowing was presented in various cases that would lead to a positive or negative outcome. In The Great Gatsby, phenomenal moments of foreshadowing can be seen in the pathetic fallacy of the novel, the actions or statements made by the characters, and Gatsby's idea of being able to recreate the past. Within The Great Gatsby, foreshadowing through pathetic fallacy took on the role of representing future change through nature. There were many moments in the novel where a pathetic mistake revealed the future outcome of a situation. By pathetic mistake, most of the clues come from the weather. In The Great Gatsby, time symbolically gave the emotional ideology that a character's inner thoughts or feelings mirror the setting of the story. At the beginning of many chapters, time represented a situation or dispute that would come to a conclusion that could be foretold. In chapter five, when the impatient Gatsby and the attentive Nick await the arrival of Daisy, ... middle of the paper ... times when Daisy had withdrawn from Tom, and Gatsby was left in pain and sadness. Ultimately, Gatsby's idea of recreating the past backfired on him because Daisy was not who he thought she was. In The Great Gatsby, the use of foreshadowing is of great prestige. Foreshadowing is used by characters as a way to introduce a possible event that will occur later. The use of this literary device is impeccable and allows the reader to carefully read between the lines to realize the events destined to happen. Within The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald is able to establish a sense of foreshadowing both on purpose and just by coincidence. All in all, the use of foreshadowing in The Great Gatsby gives the book another reason why it is a masterpiece and also a flawless piece of literature. Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Macmillan, 1980.
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