What is an example of allusion in the Great Gatsby?
An allusion to the book occurs in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Tom Buchanan, the husband of Daisy Buchanan, the novel’s principal woman character, is reading a book titled The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Tom confusedly espouses Goddard’s racial theories; the narrator calls Tom’s focus on Goddard’s ideas pathetic.
