The Great Gatsby

Tone and Diction Analysis

Complete the chart below to analyze the authors use of tone to create meaning. The first three quotes are provided
for you. Once youve completed those, find three quotes on your own to complete the organizer.
Passage and page
number
"I felt a haunting
loneliness
sometimes, and felt
it in others--young
clerks in the dusk,
wasting the most
poignant moments
of night and life."
servants,
including an extra
gardener, toiled all
day with mops and
scrubbing brushes
and hammers and
garden-shears,
repairing the
ravages of the
night before (39).

Gatsby, pale as
death, with his
hands plunged like
weights in his coat
pockets, was
standing in a puddle

Tone of
the
passage

Diction that
creates the tone

What is the author

revealing with this tone?

What effect does this tone

have on the reader?

The Great Gatsby

Tone and Diction Analysis
of water glaring
tragically into my
eyes (86).
Passage and page
number

Tone of
the
passage

Diction that
creates the tone

What is the author

revealing with this tone?

What effect does this tone

have on the reader?