Fitzgerald demonstrates several common ideas and devices throughout the novel. The passages which describe the characteristics or views of Tom, Daisy and Nick have several rhetorical devices in common. The three rhetorical devices or ideas that are repeated or common in these passages are descriptive details about people or places, oxymorons, and the character's view of the world or what is most important to them. In the first passage about Tom, Fitzgerald pays careful attention …showed first 75 words of 1037 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1037 total…places, oxymorons, and what is important to the character or how they view the world. Both Tom and Daisy were selfish, self - centered characters who mostly only cared about themselves, while Tom was always concerned about other people and saw the world in a different light then his cousin and friends. Fitzgerald used the many different rhetorical devices and ideas to show differences and similarities among the different characters and places in the novel.