The Great Gatsby Case

The Great Gatsby

When you hear the word "parties" most people think of a big gathering with close friends and families. Parties bring people together, while celebrating something special. You make memories with others in the best way possible. It is where people finally let loose and see the beauty in life. They forget about the troubles they are facing, and just think of the now. For Gatsby, hosting parties was just a way of hoping to catch a specific person's attention. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel " The Great Gatsby", the parties that are being hosted by Jay Gatsby have become important to our understanding of the book.

When Nick Carraway first moves into West Egg, he is hoping to find a normal, regular life at his new job and new home. He notices a huge mansion that he lives next to, but pays no more attention to it. He is glad that he finally gets to see his second cousin once removed, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom Buchanan, whom he went to college with. They live across the bay in East Egg. When visiting, he meets a woman named Jordan Baker. When explaining where he lived in Chapter 1 on page 15, she claims she knows someone there and says " You must know Gatsby." As soon as she said that, Daisy came into the picture and seemed confused when saying, " Gatsby? What Gatsby?" From that moment, Nick began to question who this "Gatsby" was.

Nick would hear music coming from his neighbor's house through the summer nights. In the beginning of Chapter 3 on page 43, Nick describes the parties in the summer, " In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars." On a Saturday morning, a chauffeur in a uniform of robin's egg blue crossed Nick's lawn with a note from his employer. The note said, The honor would be entirely Gatsby's if Nick attended