Unveiling Gatsby’s Mystery: Fitzgerald’s Use of Fabrication

However, Fitzgerald contrasts this with Gatsby's feeling that 'she didn't like it' as he tells 'I feel far away from her' and dismissing that 'the dance is unimportant'. Fitzgerald does this to show Gatsby knows something is standing in the way of their relationship, enforcing this by having Nick become involved in Tom's conversation as he claims 'these newly rich people are just big bootleggers'.This feeling of jealousy and hatred for Gatsby on Tom's part is used by Fitzgerald to agitate the reader throughout Chapter 6, knowing Tom may unravel Gatsby's history and construction, questioning what may happen to the love story that has been built up in the chapters before it. Fitzgerald may make the chapter seem like a romantic novel, however it is clear that Tom's plan to destruct their romance makes the novel's genre as an American Tragedy develop, with Gatsby's downfall seeming more inevitable.

Fitzgerald creates Nick as an observer throughout the chapter, ending his narrative with his inability to act.Fitzgerald has Nick enter into a brief conversation as Tom demands 'who is this Gatsby anyhow? ' and insists 'I'll make a point of finding out' what Gatsby does. This frustrates the reader as Nick simply observes the situation, not warning Gatsby of Tom's detective duties. Fitzgerald epitomises Nick's inability to act, having him remember a 'fragment of lost words' after seeing Gatsby's intimacy with Daisy; yet Nick is unable to communicate as his lips 'made no sound' and what he 'had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever'.By doing this, Fitzgerald makes the narrative increasingly tragic as he highlights Nick's powerlessness as an observer; this also encapsulates the reader's helplessness as they

cannot intervene and prevent Gatsby's fate.

Therefore, Fitzgerald makes it clear Nick simply observes Gatsby's story throughout the novel and chooses not to act when he knows of Tom's jealousy, irritating the reader as they can do nothing.