Chapter 3 Summary
The beginning of Nick’s involvement with Gatsby starts in this chapter. Nick describes Gatsby’s parties in the beginning as a great festival. He says that extra gardeners and waiters and maids arrive before the weekend starts and prepare to host the many expected guests. Huge amounts of food are brought and processed so that the guests can be fed. Then Nick tells of the few invited guests arriving with the barrage of other people who just found themselves at Gatsby’s party. He also elaborates on the way the lights shine day and night, and the yellow car that buses people to and from the party. The people act as if they were at an amusement park and lounge here and there without even meeting the hosts sometimes. Before then, there are buffets and many drinks floating through the party. The image of alcohol proliferating threw the crowd is given. Guests that have met before do not even remember each other and the attitude of impersonality is dominant. This comes to end on Monday and the excitement is over. Eight servants, including an extra gardener, scrub and fix the estate to make is as perfect as it was before the weekend.
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