... to mock or convey contempt (dictionary.com). The Great Gatsby demonstrates sarcasm through the character Gatsby, the wealthy protagonist who he possessed a "Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God." As a son of God-Gods boy-he must be about His Father's business (Fitzgerald 98 )". David Trask notes, "What was that business? It was 'the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty ... recurs quite regularly. It is the view that Fitzgerald was writing about the superannuation of traditional American belief, the obsolescence of accepted folklore (Trask 1)." This nove...

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