Jay Gatsby Influence

When someone moves into a house, it is for the purpose of making it a home. The only way to do that is to bring all of one’s personal touches to the house. This will make it feel comfortable, formal or even unwelcoming, if that is the desired outcome. One’s personality will definitely influence a home. In the Great Gatsby, this is also true. With Jay Gatsby, his home reflected the grandeur of his past. For Nick Carraway, it was the future that he was trying to make while living a humble life. Tom and Daisy Buchanan, who lived with great wealth, inherited from his family, lived as grand a life as the plantation-style house they lived in. The Houses of Gatsby, Nick Carraway and, Tom and Daisy Buchanan reflect their owners' personalities.

Gatsby was trying to live in the past and is his house reflects that. Gatsby was still in love with Daisy. He would throw extravagant parties every night in hopes that she will just wander in. “There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and he champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his motor-boats slid the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. (39)”. With Gatsby’s past being so happy he desperately wanted to hold onto it, so he tried to recreate his past. In the end, he was just trying to get Daisy back. Jay Gatsby is not the only one whose house reflects their personality, so does Nick

Nick is just a humble guy who lives next door to Gatsby. He gets dragged into Gatsby’s world because he is invited to attend one of those parties, simply because he knew Daisy, but would soon become Gatsby’s only true friend. “I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard … My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month. (14)”. With his house he is an honest man who cares very deeply about his friends and is just trying to help those he cares about. Nick’s house represents his personality, but so does