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 found myself in the dining room observing everything and everyone. The dining room was set up to have an intimate feel to it. There were fresh flowers on every table and each table had some privacy. The
Gatsby strives to belong in a class where he is truly an outsider looking in. He throws many extravagant partie...
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
Nick says "I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was
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.
The next evening was another of Gatsby’s famous parties. Anthony knew he had to keep an eye on Gatsby to make sure there was nothing else going on he wasn’t aware of. Everything had to be perfect. As he blended in, moving through the crowd of party-goers, he was bumped into. He recognized the timid looking man as Nick Carraway, Tom’s cousin-in-law. Knowing of Gatsby’s personal invitation to him, he tailed Nick, hoping he would lead him to Gatsby. As Nick perused the party, he was joined by a woman he thought he recognized. Sure enough, Anthony was pretending to be enjoying a cocktail when he heard a familiar voice.
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...
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 ...
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
The people who go to Gatsby's house on Saturday night only go to have a good time. The guests get drunk, get into fights, and act like complete idiots. This behaviour is apparent when Nick goes to one of Gatsby's parties for the first time. Nick says,
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).