Section A:
- List of names: mostly animals, plants and/or humorous sounding- also morbid stories that accompany them
- The car's description "gorgeous" and it's role in the chapter
- Racial language "American resourcefulness of movement", "Negroes", referring to Wolfsheim as a jew and making multiple references to his nose
Section B:
- Development of nick as narrator and a more spontaneous character "there are the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired"
- Nick also starts to consider himself on of Crowd that attends Gatsby's parties
- Gatsby's false past is told to us-it is hinted that this is a lie through lines such as "he looked at me sideways"
Section One:
- Imagery: Musical Imagery- "opera of voices pitches a key higher" "[referring to the Englishmen] for a few words in the right key"
- Language of excess: "Pyramid of fruit", "corps of caterers", "finger bowls of champagne
- Description of Gatsby's smile
- Use of bright colours- i.e. the yellow of the two girl's dresses
Section Two:
- Superficiality: "introductions forgotten on the spot", the fact people gossip about Gatsby but still attend his parties
- Alienation: Nick's words about his time in new york
- Gatsby: His reputation is juxtaposed with his almost meager introduction to with Nick
