Diction

"I looked back at my cousin, who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget a singing compulsion, a whispered 'Listen,' a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour" (Fitzgerald 9).

In this passage Fitzgerald utilizes flowery diction to describe the upbeat tone that radiates from Daisy's voice when she speaks. Fitzgerald uses words such as, "thrilling" and "kind" to express the loud excitement in Daisy's voice as well as her soft compassion. This is the first time the audience is introduced to Daisy. The reader's first impression of her is through Nicks eyes, he portrays Daisy as a lively and enchanting person, although "her face was sad and lovely" (Fitzgerald 9). The use of flowery diction gives one an elaborate description of Daisy's character and allows the reader to picture her image in their mind.