Examples Of Fools In The Great Gatsby

“Drinking makes fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it’s compounding a felony.” - Robert Benchley, explains that people get intoxicated makes them fools, but that people are such fools already before they are drunk that when they are intoxicated it is basically a crime to themselves and others. Jay Gatsby, one of the main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby throws extravagant parties for many people which in many instances drunk people make extremely foolish decisions. Showcasing the events that happened at the social gatherings, Fitzgerald would agree because the intoxicated fools in this book were fools long before they were drunk.
Since everyone at Gatsby's parties drinks so much, they act like they are at an amusement park, fools go there to become even bigger fools. People that attend his parties are fools who go and become even more foolish, getting drunk and acting like they are little kids. While Nick was at Gatsby’s party “ By midnight the hilarity had increased, the champagne was served in bigger glasses than finger bowls” (Fitzgerald 46). Gatsby’s parties were all extremely big, and he was ever the only one who did not drink, he threw all of those parties for Daisy, and all of the hysterics and craziness was all for her. Gatsby never stayed in one place
Scott Fitzgerald would agree with the said quote because there are instances in the novel The Great Gatsby where fools get intoxicated and it leads to nothing good. The fools in the story, for example, the party-goers at Jay Gatsby’s house cause many bad accidents and events, one drunk man even crashed his car and tried to drive it away from the scene short of a front wheel. There are many people in the world who they last thing they need to do is drink, fools will be fools regardless. There isn’t anything wrong with drinking responsibly, but too much alcohol or any alcohol in the hands of a wrong person can cause some very dangerous and foolish