"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
Do you discern this phrase just as things grow in fast movies an adjectival phrase modifying a noun phrase the great bursts of leavings growing on the trees?
And in And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees I may not seem sure what to select. And seems a conjunction, so, adverb, and with, preposition. Do you discern And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees a prepositional phrase functioning like an adverb, describing maybe when this maybe individual had a familiar conviction?