1920’s Hot Dawg! Party
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The gay invitation arrived at my house, one day before the date. The invitation was strangely hotsy - totsy in an odd sort of way. Yet, even the material of the invitation screamed the host of this party was full of jack, so it was spiffy for me to show up at one, but just this once. Even though I had no idea who this man was, I supposed I could take a chance, for once in my life.
The rooms looked unreal and every item was extravagant. I slowly took the air tight scene in, moving around myself just to try to get every glimpse of the magnificent room.
A big timer came up to me and exclaimed “Let’s Ankle, shall we?” I looked at this recognizable face, one you couldn't forget no matter how hard you tried.
“Hello, Gatsby. There was no need to be so suspicious on your invitation.” I replied taking his offer to to walk and talk with him. I also remembered the fake name he used on his invite, using the title ‘an unknown, very known, important person that would hate you to miss this Hot Dawg! Party’.
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Now though, no one even bothered with me anymore. “Ha! More like a canceled stamp if you ask me.” I responded, stopping at the circular balcony, the only partially quiet place in the whole house. The house that was already full, despite the early hour of
I’d never been in a house like this. It had rooms off of rooms, and in each of them were deep sofas and chairs, woven carpet over polished hard-wood floors, tasteful paintings on the walls. She asked if I was hungry, and she opened the fridge and it was stuffed with food-cold cuts and cheeses, fresh
In his giant mansion on Long Sound Island, Gatsby hosts lavish parties, complete with colored lights, replete buffet tables, and a fully stocked bar with “… gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten…” (Fitzgerald 44) for anybody that wants to attend. No invitations are required, and everything is free. At a glance, this action appears generous and done out of pure goodwill, but the narrator later revels that it was all a ploy to attract the attention of Gatsby’s lover, Daisy Buchanan (83). Gatsby did not throw free parties to provide festivities and entertainment for others, he did it for the selfish reason to acquire the love and respect of Daisy
He told me I et like a hog once and I beat him for it? (182). Gatsby?s determination to gain a
In the book The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald discusses Gatsby. Gatsby was a very strange and mysterious man. According to Doreski, “Gatsby was far from perfect in many ways but all in all it contains such prose as has never been written in America before” (Doreski). Gatsby always throws very fancy parties that everyone attends. “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited—they went there (45).” Nick got an actual invitation to Gatsby’s party and he is probably the only person who has ever gotten an invitation. Gatsby invited Nick because he wanted to get close to him.
Gatsby’s life story is continuously questioned by Nick because of slight tendencies that Gatsby shows. Despite his wealth, Gatsby acts differently than his wealthy counterparts. During the first party that Nick attends, the other attendees start out acting very civil, but they slowly become partiers later in the text. They drink heavily and all the wives begin to fight with their husbands. While they interact very socially with each other, not everyone is quite sure who Gatsby is. For part of the night, Gatsby is described as watching all the events. Nick states, “I could see nothing sinister about him. I wonder if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased” (Fitzgerald 50). From this quote, the fact that Gatsby acting different is assigned to the fact that he has not been drinking, but even earlier during the party when Nick meets Gatsby, he describes him as “an elaborate elegant young roughneck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. Some time before he introduced himself I’d got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care” (Fitzgerald 48). Nick later admits that “I would have accepted without question the information that Gatsby sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East Side of New
Gatsby has all the money yet he is not happy when he throws gigantic parties at his house. Daisy, the one he tried to lure in with his parties, never cared to show up. The love shown by Gatsby towards Daisy, “’I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed. Good night, old sport.’ He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight – watching over nothing” (Fitzgerald 145).
When Gatsby knows Daisy’s whereabouts but before they meet, Gatsby has achieved a higher social class with a checkbook that reflects this fact. His lavish parties are over the top, yet Gatsby is always detached from the scene. Nick note...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life. The occasional insights into character stand out as very green oases on an arid desert of waste paper. Throughout the first half of the book the author shadows his leading character in mystery, but when in the latter part he unfolds his life story it is difficult to find the brains, the cleverness, and the glamour that one might expect of a main character.
It is an insight, perhaps, into Gatsby’s inner self that he never attended his own parties. He did, however, begin to enjoy the ability to be extravagant and wasteful. Daisy’s failure to attend Gatsby’s parties required him to seek other means of being near his true love. Delving into her life in an attempt to seek out her close friends, Gatsby meets Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin and his next door neighbor. He forms a friendship of sorts with Carraway and begins to confide some of his past. Gatsby never revealed his past association with the Mafia, nor did he share his criminal past with Carraway fearful that Daisy might discover this .
...er in the book to all the characters in it especially Nick Carraway. Gatsby left a large mark on Nick enough that he will never forget him. “‘They’re a rotten crowd,’ [he] shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole d*** bunch put together.’” (162).
Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph, ed. (2000). F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Literary Reference. New
Gatsby strives to belong in a class where he is truly an outsider looking in. He throws many extravagant partie...
Gatsby is not so great because he is a liar. From the very start Gatsby is said to be an alumnus from Oxford, who fought in WWI, hunted big game, and had parents from the Midwest. He even justifies himself when Nicks asks and Gatsby pulls out a picture of him at Oxford and a WWI medal that he carried around in his pocket. He even changed his name, James Gatz to Jay Gatsby, but why? “James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career” (6). Gatsby is mysterious and mystifying, known for his large parties yet no one knows why he has them. Keep in mind this is the prohibition era, but at Gatsby’s parties there is always plenty of alcohol to go around and no one knows where it comes from or how he acquires so much, one of the many mysteries. In attendance at these parties there are people like Meyer Wolfshiem “the man who really did fix the 1919 World Series” (118), to the mayors and governors. More questions arise in this company as to how Gatsby is associated with gangsters and why they attend these large parties. It is completely ironic how so many attend these parties but none ...
It is human nature for people to question the character of those around them, and in Gatsby’s case, his friends did not have much information about him. Since little is known about Gatsby, his neighbor, Nick, must depend on misleading rumors about the man of mystery. At one of Gatsby’s glamorous parties, a group of women gossip, “One time he killed a man who had found out that he was the nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil” (61). Other guest place Gatsby as an illegal bootlegger or as a German spy during the war. While some of these stories may be true to his past, most are the outcome of society’s ignorance of Gatsby.
Nick says "I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was