Gatsby's Party

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Gatsby’s Party In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scot Fitzgerald one of the main characters Jay Gatsby throws a party in his mansion. The party is extravagant with a great deal of attendees. In the party events take place that represent Gatsby’s mysteriousness, ignorance, corruption and his relation to the moon. At the party, people have a conversation to try to figure out who exactly Gatsby is. “Somebody told me he killed a man once.”...“I don’t think so much that,” argued Lucille skeptically; “it’s more that he was a German spy during the war”(F. Scott 48). This shows Gatsby’s mysteriousness. Everyone’s vision of him is clouded through gossip that they have heard. The quote sounds like kids in the hallway talking about the “new kid” in school. No one is quite sure of who or what he is, and all people have are assumptions to establish their visions of Gatsby. A journal about The Great Gatsby also confirms his mysteriousness with this quote “The public confusion about Jay Gatsby, whose real name is James Gatz, the wild rumors about his origins, connections, and business ("nephew of the Kaiser," "German spy," "bootlegger," "murderer") pales before the fantastic disorder, the "purposeless splendor," of the truth-self- educated admirer of Benjamin Franklin and Hopalong Cassidy, Lake Superior salmon (!) fisherman, big-game hunter, bootlegger, jewel collector, idealist, gangster, military hero, expatriate, right down to the picture of himself in Trinty Quad with the Earl of Doncaster, the "Orderi de Danilo" medal from Montenegro, the phone calls from Chicago and Myer Wolfsheim”(Lisca 21). Besides other things Gatsby is also an ignorant man. In Gatsby’s library an attendee of the party makes remarks on Gatsby’s books. “See!” he cried triumphantly. “It’s a bona fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What
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