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The Party Relaxes In The Great Gatsby

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Parties relax, impress and sicken the main characters in The Great Gatsby. Throughout the novel there are contrasting situations at parties. The tea party at Nick’s house relaxes Gatsby and Daisy. This party takes a domestic setting, so the casual tone of the event relaxes them in contrast to the other parties where there is an excess of people and festivities or the event is too formal. Furthermore, since only Gatsby, Nick and Daisy attend, Gatsby and Daisy are able to be honest with each other and do not have to worry about keeping up with appearances. Daisy is able to reconnect with Gatsby because they are separated from the rest of the world, and this leads her to see that she can still have a life with gatsby. This party allows Gatsby to get over his anxiety and self doubt by removing the background noise of other parties and putting him alone with her so that he is in control and able to show himself to her without fear. The party thus relaxes each of them because the party’s informal, private setting allows them to get over spending 5 years apart. …show more content…

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. Had the rest of the crowd been invited, Nick would not have felt as wanted as he did because he was not unique. In conclusion, the extravagance of Gatsby’s first party impresses Nick and entices him to listen to

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