Chapter 3 Gatsby’s parties
People come without being invited
Starlets show up
Plenty of food and drink
Constantly changing light (39, 46f)
Imagery of floating again – I never care what I do so I always have a good time. (42,7f)
Rumours concerning Gatsby (42)
Irony: “I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library” (44,19f)
Gatsby’s library: real books, but the pages are not cut. What the hell does that mean? (44,9)
People doing stunts to attract attention (44, 26-36)
Have you, people, ever seen a “triangle of silver scales” floating in the Long Island Sound? (45,37f)
Gatsby introduced
Page 45,39 bottom to page 46/27 and 50,27ff
Refer to page 52/22-28 Contrast between the funny, sad reality and Gatsby who is seen
separated from everything, who even seems to be unreal
smile - bursts of laughter
formal - emotional/ outgoing / boasting
unreal - ridiculously real (satire)
romantic touch (a wafer of a moon)
HW: read at least to the end of chapter IV and learn the lines describing Gatsby’s formal gesture by heart.
Short characterization of Jordan Baker page 54 to end if chapter 3
- She ruined a borrowed car and lied about it (54, 15ff)
- Cheated in a gulf tournament ( 54, 18ff)
- “She was incurably dishones” ( 54, 27)
- Motif of the accident (our fender flicked a button on one man’s coat 54, bottom)
Jordan doesn’t take responsibility for it: “It takes two to make an accident.” (55, 43f)
- Nick: “Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.”
Jordan: “I hope I never will,…” (55,45f)
