Obsession in F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory( ):A Pragmatic Study

The paper examines the issue of obsession in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby using Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory, providing a distinct pragmatic viewpoint on the characters' interactions. The use of this theoretical framework reveals how politeness strategies - positive politeness, negative politeness, off-record, and bald on-record strategies - serve not only as tools for social interaction, but also as mechanisms that reflect and reinforce the characters' obsessive behaviors. Gatsby's obsessive idealization of Daisy, his attempts to control the past, Tom's obsessive desire for domination, and Daisy's unwillingness to accept emotional truths are all explored using particular linguistic tactics like hyperbole, rhetorical, hedging, and.