Syntax

"The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner. It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste. He was a blonde, spiritless man, anemic and faintly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes" (Fitzgerald 29). 

Fitzgerald uses complex syntax in the first sentence, joining two independent clauses with a semicolon, each of which could have been a sentence on its own, but supplemented the other well enough to be combined. He uses comp-complex syntax in the second sentence. The first clause, ending with "blind" describes the garage and is independent. The second clause, beginning with "and" and ending with "overhead" is dependent on the first clause, and elaborates on Nick's perception of the garage. Another dependent clause begins with the subordinating conjunction "when" and ends with "office". This introduces the character of Mr. Wilson, while relating him to the state of the garage in order to assert a connection between the pitiful appearance of the garage and the state and appearance of Mr. Wilson. The final dependent clause begins with "wiping" and describes Mr. Wilson's action, which at this moment is wiping his hands on a piece of "waste", further highlighting how pathetic Mr. Wilson is, that he would have to wipe his hands on "waste". The next sentence describes Mr. Wilson's physical appearance using a cumulative structure, with the initial independent clause ending with "man" followed by the details about his appearance, The final sentence is complex in structure. The initial clause, elaborating on the exact moment his eyes received a "gleam of hope", depends on the second, independent clause describing the actual action.

Fitzgerald most commonly uses either complex or compound sentences simply because his writing is too descriptive for him to fit all of the necessary details into a simple structure. He attempts to provide the reader with a vivid image of whatever scene he is describing by extensively describing things.       

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