"...A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in a one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frost wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wing does on the sea.
The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house... There was a boom...and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor." (Fitzgerald 8).
In this passage, Fitzgerald uses ornate and fanciful diction to illustrate the extravagance and lavishness of the lifestyles of the East Egg. Words such as "wedding-cake", "wine-colored", and "enormous" all serve to create this image of a regal, mystical society in which Daisy, Tom and Jordan live. The words "rippling", "fluttering", and "ballooned" all express this carefree mentality the people of East Egg possessed, feeling no sense of responsibility to liability to their actions and mistakes.
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