The Great Gatsby- descriptive writing

           The Great Gatsby is an extremely descriptive book. I am on page 50 and F. Scott Fitzgerald is still introducing the characters. I have not even really met Gatsby himself yet. But, I think that is the point. The narrator of the book, Nick, hardly ever talks. Just listens. You don’t even really know what he looks like. I still really like the book; it is not like what I am used to reading.

Nick describes people in really specific ways. Not just, “the boy had ocean blue eyes”. When he is meeting new people he usually describes each one of them. Like when he describes Catherine, “The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white. Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face. When she moved about there was an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down her arms” (Fitzgerald 34). Believe it or not, that was not even the whole description. Also, you probably noticed that there are a lot of big, fancy words in the description. That has caused me to actually have to look things up. I know, that is absolutely crazy, right. I actually have to do work. ;)