Compare The Two Parties In The Great Gatsby

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, multiple parties are held demonstrating the culture of the 1920s. The narrator, Nick Carraway, goes to two parties in particular. He goes to his former classmate and cousins husband Tom Buchanan’s party in Manhattan and his next door neighbor Jay Gatsby’s party in West Egg. These two parties do more than just exemplify the 20s and recount Nick’s story, they reveal stuff about the two hosts. These parties reveal Tom Buchanan is egocentric and that Jay Gatsby’s life in West Egg is circulated around his love for Daisy.

In the 1920s, the United States saw great economic growth and cultural advancement. Jay Gatsby represents this perfectly. Jay Gatsby is man from the middle class who works
What she means is that a party like Gatsby makes it easier to have a private conversation, because there are so many people that everyone else has someone to talk to or something to do as well as the house being bigger to find privacy. But, Tom’s party is less intimate despite being smaller since there is no room in the apartment to get enough privacy and there are so little people that everyone is part of the conversation at all times even if they don’t want to. In stating this, Jordan Baker is, in fact, correct about it. At Tom’s party, the whole group was conversing in group discussion most of the time and everyone was talking to each other. But, at Gatsby’s party, Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway went through the party only talking to a few scattered people, which is immensely small comparing to the amount of people there in total. And, Jordan Baker was able to have a private and more importantly intimate conversation with Jay Gatsby at his party without anyone hearing or knowing about except for Nick. Furthermore, Jordan Baker is correct about Gatsby’s parties being more intimate because it is easier to go unnoticed among the multitudes of