During chapter 3, we finally get the taste of what Gatsby’s life is like. We witness one of his legendary parties that bring both the East Egg and the West Egg socialites together. Fitzgerald does an amazing job with the imagery of the party with lots of detail and description, thus making as feel like we’re also in the party. We can see the materialistic world of the 1920’s clearly with the descriptions of the people and the party’s descriptive imagery but also with the attitudes of certain guests, for example Lucille tells Jordan and the rest of the table how much money she paid for her dress which is considered to be very inappropriate in this kind of environment.
Even though this chapter is supposed to make Gatsby less mysterious, I think it was the exact opposite. I was even more confused about Gatsby because I didn’t understand why he invites people he doesn’t know and doesn’t even talk to his guests. The reader has seen Gatsby, heard people talk about him but meets with the rich extravagant towards the end of the chapter for the first time.
During the chapter Nick is being told plenty of “rumors” about Gatsby but no one is sure about what is true and what is not. Nick is told that Gatsby has killed a man, was a spy during the German War, and grew up in Germany and that he was an Oxford man. These rumors make Nick even more eager to meet this mysterious neighbour of his.
Like the entire night wasn’t weird enough, the way Nick meets Jay Gatsby was even more bizarre. He doesn’t know that the guy sitting in his table is Gatsby. Descriptions of Gatsby were very different from what I expected it to be. I always imagined that he would be an old guy that was pompous and an extrovert but Jay Gatsby was exactly the opposite of what I had imagined him to be. It’s also funny that he calls people “old sport”, an aspect to him that was also different from his lifestyle. The chapter leads us of to a mystery by Gatsby calling Jordan Baker in order to talk to her in private, leading the reader and Nick himself with question marks about what they had talked about. I’m pretty sure that we will learn what they talked about pretty soon because if it weren’t important Jordan would have told Nick about what they talked about. Another event that surprised me towards the end of the chapter was Nick’s descriptions toward Jordan Baker. He tells the reader that; “He wasn’t actually in love but, he felt a sort of tender curiosity” towards her (pg. 38).
Like the entire night wasn’t weird enough, the way Nick meets Jay Gatsby was even more bizarre. He doesn’t know that the guy sitting in his table is Gatsby. Descriptions of Gatsby were very different from what I expected it to be. I always imagined that he would be an old guy that was pompous and an extrovert but Jay Gatsby was exactly the opposite of what I had imagined him to be. It’s also funny that he calls people “old sport”, an aspect to him that was also different from his lifestyle. The chapter leads us of to a mystery by Gatsby calling Jordan Baker in order to talk to her in private, leading the reader and Nick himself with question marks about what they had talked about. I’m pretty sure that we will learn what they talked about pretty soon because if it weren’t important Jordan would have told Nick about what they talked about. Another event that surprised me towards the end of the chapter was Nick’s descriptions toward Jordan Baker. He tells the reader that; “He wasn’t actually in love but, he felt a sort of tender curiosity” towards her (pg. 38).
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