Jordan and Nick are at Gatsby’s lavish party, and Jordan comments on the fact she would rather be at a larger party than a smaller one by a completely true paradox. One would think small parties are intimate because one gets to hang out and talk with all the guests and at large parties, there would be privacy because everyone would be making noise and in small clubs so no one would care about the others around them. But if one things about it, Jordan is saying that large parties are more “intimate” because one focuses on only a few individuals and the distractions of others is like a shield; on the other hand, at a small party, everyone hears what one are talking about or sees what one is doing. Fitzgerald used this paradox for characterization
