F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s House to symbolize his mysterious and questionable lifestyle. On page 50 the drunk man in the library is fascinated that all of the books are real but he says “-didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?” This would imply that Gatsby lives a lifestyle that he does not want anyone to know about. The library is simply there to make himself seem more knowledgeable than he really is. Another example would be on page 50 when the butler walks up to Gatsby and says, “Philadelphia wants you on the phone, sir.” The phones are always going off from different big cities in which the subject of the conversation is never disclosed. This can only make someone wonder what is so important about these phone
