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Parties In The Great Gatsby

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American Dream

In the early years of the United States, people would immigrate to the United States in search of a better life for themselves as well as their families. They wanted to start fresh, build from the ground up and become wealthy enough to live comfortably and have financial stability. Throughout time, this idea has become known as the American Dream. Throughout the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are many themes presented. One of the most prominent, however, is when Fitzgerald shows the impossibility of achieving complete happiness and condemns the idea of American Dream throughout the characters and by providing the readers with multiple different symbols and motifs that support this idea, including: Gatsby’s …show more content…

These parties were extravagant. Hundreds upon hundreds of people would attend these parties, and bring their friends. Mr. Gatsby even hired live music for each party and they occurred every Saturday. To explain the size and extravagance of his parties in greater detail, Fitzgerald notes that hundreds of oranges were fresh-squeezed for the juice for each party. All of the people that attended these events seemed to be there to enjoy the glamour they believed to be the American Dream. In all reality, the guests were simply showing up to prove their social status. This is a prime example of the excessive materialism resulting from pursuing the dream. Most of them did not seem to be happy either, as Nick claims that many of the men brought their mistresses to these parties to cheat on their wives. None of the party-goers showed more than just the slightest curiosity about Gatsby’s character, although they came over nearly every weekend to enjoy his parties. This is reiterated at the end of the story when only two people show up for Gatsby’s funeral. This shows the hollowness of the American Dream as the people only care about themselves and what others think of them. Unfortunately, a common occurrence in the story is

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The Facade of Gatsby’s Parties The figurative language and syntax on page 41 conveys the fallacy of the people at Gatsby's parties. Page 41 begins to describe one of Gatsby’s parties using many forms of figurative language. People arrive with their “hair shorn in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile,” decked out in their fancy clothes, desperate to be the center of attention.

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Gatsby hosts extravagant parties in an effort not only to boost his social status, but also to look for Daisy. Many wealthy, and often wild people attend these large social events held by Mr. Gatsby. Some of the guests even come lacking an invitation, “Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.” (41)

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Nick wrote down the people who attended the party on July 5th, 1922, which was “from East Egg, then, came Chester Beckers and the Leeches, and a man named Bunsen, whom I knew at Yale, and Doctor Webster Civet, who was drowned last summer up in Maine. And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaire, and a whole clan named Blackbuck…” (Fitzgerald 62). Nick talks about all of the different people that come to Gatsby’s parties and how most of them are not even invited, but just show up anyways. At Gatsby’s funeral, “…as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a worried, uncertain way.

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When Gatsby throws parties, he wastes his money. This shows his carelessness. Gatsby wastes tons of money just to try and have Daisy come to one of his parties. When Daisy finally came to one of his parties, she did not even like it. This shows that after Gatsby’s hard work, the spending spree on parties does not pay off.

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In the novel, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, Nick, the main character, attends a party that is thrown by Gatsby. Nick, at this point in the novel, has never met Gatsby and consequently, he has no idea what to expect at this party. Since it is a new experience, Nick goes into great detail about the party. Through his description of the party, the reader is able to get the feel of Nick’s attitude towards the party, particularly its shiny and superficial atmosphere and over the top nature. In order to show his attitude towards the party, Fitzgerald uses imagery to emphasize the party’s glossy nature and uses diction to hint to the reader that the party is overdone.

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The American Dream is similar to the ideals of The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, because today we do not have steady employment, it is unrealistic to those with different circumstances, the dream can be reachable through hard work, and the dream varies for people. People still struggle to find opportunities of employment and

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows many scenes of parties at J. Gatsby’s house and that contributed to the meaning of the book. Gatsby threw many parties threw out the novel, until he finally met back up with his one true love. The parties showed that he was only. He had a ginormous house and that was his way of feeling it to feel less lonely. And it showed how he started throwing no parties at all once he got the love of his life back.

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The positives and negatives of the grandiosity in the 1920s is seen in Gatsby’s parties, and helps create a window to the

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Nick would watch the people arrive to be the entertainment at Gatsby’s party. “By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums”(40). All these people arrived every night Gatsby threw a party, the parties made Gatsby appear to be a very rich and classy man, but Gatsby only threw all those parties to get Daisy’s attention. He never socialized much at his parties because Daisy wasn’t attending them. Nick said goodnight to Daisy when she finally came to one of Gatsby’s parties and as she was leaving he thought to himself, “After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby’s party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her mind”(108).

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Here Nick describes and shows us the type of parties Gatsby is throwing to try and get Daisy’s attention from across the bay. This is because his parties have loud music, a lot of people, and a lot of alcohol. From this quote we see that Gatsby, who was once in love with Daisy, wants to try and impress her. We also see in the same quote that his party may have gotten a little bit out of hand. They are so loud and obnoxious, plus they also have alcohol, which at the time was not

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The spectacle of the party is filled with such exuberance and excess that Nick perceives Gatsby to be a respectable figure. The party’s excess of food and drink project an air of success and opulence onto Gatsby. This excess demonstrates to Nick the money that Gatsby has in a way that simply telling him cannot because he has experienced the richness. Also, because no one else has an invitation, but Nick does, this creates a notion that he is the only one that Gatsby cares about that is there. This suggests to Nick that Gatsby genuinely wants to see him, and creates a positive view of Gatsby in his mind.

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Tom’s and Gatsby’s party differed in almost every aspect possible. While Tom’s party was a small party to assert his dominance to his mistress and friends, Gatsby’s party was to lure and impress the love of his life. Tom’s party displayed his snobby old money ideals by not spending much money and effort, while Gatsby’s party symbolized new money with its excessive and flaunting spending and grandiose show. The level of intimacy at both parties differed significantly. Despite Tom’s party being small, it was far from intimate with all the guests budging into all conversations, Nick couldn’t even have a talk with Catherine long enough without Ms. Mckee budging in.

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The novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitz Gerald embodies many themes. A major in the story is the pursuit of can be labelled the American Dream. The American Dream is defined as someone starting low on the economic or social level, and working hard towards prosperity and or wealth and fame. By having money, a car, a big house, nice clothes and a happy family symbolizes the American dream. The Great Gatsby shows what happened to the American Dream in the 1920’s, which is a time period when the dreams became corrupted for many reasons.

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Fitzgerald focused on the shift in the American Dream - from being the idea of self-fulfillment, dignity and comfort that is achieved through hard work, to being equated with the pursuit of wealth and power, and identifying happiness with having money. The novel depicts the rise and fall of the concept and describes the causes of its decay. The downfall of the American Dream is most accurately shown through the main protagonist of the story – Jay Gatsby. To reiterate, the American Dream is the concept that anyone can achieve a better life and become self-fulfilled, if they put enough effort to it and make the most of their abilities.

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We can also see dishonesty in the book when Gatsby never talks about how he made all his money, and no one that attends the parties seem to know the truth about Gatsby 's wealth and his personal history. () In New York Gatsby was famous because of his elaborate parties that would go on every weekend in his mansion. In Gatsby 's parties we can also see all the money he has, his parties were very fancy and full of expensive things, his guests enjoyed of his luxurious mansion, they loved to be part of his parties because they would be able to enjoy his swimming pool, his beach, crates of fresh oranges and lemon, buffet tents in the gardens, and a beautiful live orchestra playing under the stars. And of course people getting drunk. People loved to be invited to his parties.

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