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When Fitzgerald describes something in one of his works, he never comes right out and describes the person or place. Instead, he brings life to the object. In this passage from The Great Gatsby, the house of Tom and Daisy Buchanan is brought out of its normal existence. Fitzgerald uses several contrasting words, switching back and forth between words that give off a soft connotation with those that give of