After entertaining hundreds very often it really shows how the people who attended his parties were not truly friends and still left Gatsby lonely. Overall, throughout this novel we can see how money cannot buy happiness or the company of whom we really want, which left Gatsby in
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.
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)
Gatsby was denying his loneliness and the fact that he had no friends by throwing these parties. The number of attendees caused the illusion that Gatsby contained a considerable amount of friends. It is shown that his expectation that parties would generate caring people was a failure when no one showed up to his funeral. In The Great Gatsby Nick narrates that “The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use.
Nick is beginning his new eastern life for the first time. Also, it is a similar situation with Gatsby as his life seems to restart as well as he attempts to regain Daisy’s love for him. Joy and fun come along with the chaos that summer brings. All the parties Gatsby throws in his house are not your typical house party. “People were not invited--they just went there.
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.
There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same multi-colored, many keyed commotion, but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before.” Nick classified all the rich people who went to Gatsby's party as the 'same sort' since they are copying from each other's image. They do not have their own identity and is only known as the 'group' of rich people, who do nothing, but entertain themselves with illegal drinking and partying. The unpleasant feeling that Nick has is the rich people's thought and belief of the materialism corruption of the society.
“I spend my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive” (179). The imagery used paints an image of what the extravagant parties were like and the impact they had on Nick that made him remember them so vividly. Nick heard a car pulling up to Gatsby’s mansion one time but decided not to investigate. “Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn’t know that the party was over” (179). It seems like no one cares enough to check up on how Gatsby is doing, people only cared about the fake image he put up.
E: "People were not invited---they went there" (45). Nick proceeds to explain the guests' manners, "Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby's and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks" (45). A: The guests at Gatsby's party attend uninvited and doesn't even bother to introduce themselves to the host of the party. They're not being polite either because they're acting obnoxious as if they're not at formal party.
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).
Gatsby’s name was incessantly linked to a good time. We are first introduced to these charming parties in chapter three of the book. The party host is evoked into our mind as a gentlemanly and high class man, but this scene is also shrouded in a sense of mystery. Gatsby himself only communicates with the narrator, Nick Carraway, at the end of the chapter as he is inaccessible and unknown to many of his guests. The isolation that Gatsby portrays toward his guests and his removal from partaking in his own affairs seems to create an initial image of mystery for Gatsby that affects his character and the relationships he holds with others throughout the book.
I have used the books as my Gatsby Symbolism Project. I feel that the book symbolized Gatsby pretending to be something and someone that he truly is not. I feel that everyone knew who Gatsby was even through his lies and charades, but his facades that he made about himself him in the worst situation and at a disadvantage. In one point and place in the book, Gatsby talked about going to Harvard and he had pictures and medals just to prove his point because he felt that what he said wasn’t enough. Most people that go to the extended level just to try to get someone to believe him and if he did that himself, he knows himself that half the things he says aren’t really true.
Quixotically dreaming allows one to prosper exceedingly in order for their dream to become reality; they will do as needed to inch themselves closer to their delusion. However, it becomes destructive. They will do as needed translates to: anything will be done, no matter harmful or dangerous. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby buys a house, where he is able to see the green light coming from Daisy’s house. Obsession seeps through this action, and the audience, the therapist whom which Nick is writing to, senses a psychological disorder.
For Gatsby it was his passion to keep achieving more. When he became rich he just let anyone into his home to make himself feel like his success was brought him something, but at the same time he did not talk to any of them. The truth was though, that Gatsby held parties not to share his success or even to be around people; he held them just to wait for the only thing that would make him complete: Daisy. All he did was focus on Daisy who he felt was the only person that could bring him happiness, but it led him to being very absent from others’ lives. Nick was invited to a party at Gatsby’s house and when he arrived at his house he explains, “I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed away and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements” (Fitzgerald 46).
When Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story, attends one of such gatherings he is awed by it and at the same time puzzled by the absence of the host. Gatsby is the only person who does not drink alcohol and is always in control of himself. Although he affects ease and relaxation, he is vigilant and watches over all the minutiae, such as replacing guest’s torn dress with a new one, so as to ensure that the illusion he creates will not be broken. He organises this magical event and it is held together by the force of his Romantic
