Parties In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald somewhat portrays some of these things. In the first few chapters Fitzgerald talks about how extravagant Gatsby’s parties are. What type of music he plays and what kind of people go to his parties. In The Great Gatsby Jazz music, Baseball, and the ways of women were slightly talked about.
Gatsby threw enormous parties all throughout the summer nights. “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden” (Fitzgerald 44). “ Bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning and long past midnight” (Fitzgerald 43). Those who came to Gatsby's parties just showed up. Gatsby doesn’t make invitations or send them out to people. “People were not invited-they went there. They got into automobiles, which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door” (Fitzgerald 45). People from all parts of New

The orchestras had a variety of instruments from woodwinds like oboes, saxophones, and piccolos, to brass instruments, like trombones and cornets, and violin instruments like violas, and percussion instruments like drums. “By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived-no thin five piece affair, but a whole pit full of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums” (Fitzgerald 44). Whenever Gatsby would have orchestras play at his parties they played the latest music or well-known music. ”We are going to play for you Mr. Vladimir Tostoff’s latest work which attracted so much attention at Carnegie Hall last May. If you read the papers you know there was a big sensation. He smiled with jovial condescension and added Some sensation! whereupon everybody laughed. The piece is known, he concluded lustily. As Vladimir Tostoff’s Jazz History of the World” (Fitzgerald