Syntax

     "Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life" (Fitzgerald 35).

     Fitzgerald utilizes juxtaposition syntax to contrast the feeling of both belonging to and being excluded from the society of Nick's peers. Nick was up high over the city, taking part in the lavish parties and lifestyles of Daisy and Tom. Butt he was also "looking up" at them from the street because he didn't truly feel as if he belonged in that world. Phrases such as "within and without" and "enchanted and repelled" emphasize this contrast.