Question

What effect does fitzgerald create in the paragraph beginning "for daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes"?

Answer 1

This paragraph gives the effect of setting up the speaker/narrator as a bit skeptical of Daisy. He calls her world "artificial" which denotes a sense of triviality in her character. Then, a bit later, uses the word "snobbery" a pejorative that hints at effeteness. He goes on, though, to end the sentence speaking of the "sadness and suggestiveness" of life which, coming from an original upbeat beginning, seems to allude to the future troubles yet to come in the book, in Daisy's life.