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Most people were not actually invited to the party in the first place as you see in the quote on page 41 "I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been requested to attend the party. People were not invited they went there.” The narrator, or Nick Carraway in this case, speculates about how almost no one is actually invited to Gatsby’s superb parties they just show up because they think that if they show up they will seem high class because they are socializing with the élite citizens of New York City around the West Egg area. People go to these parties and act like they belong there because they feel like they have to in order to be or become classified as part of the elites. The book shows another example of this on page 43 where Lucille says, “I like to come; I never care what I do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair and he asked me for my name and address and inside a week I got a package from Croiries’s with a new evening gown in it.” This shows just how the people don’t care what they do at the parties as long as they are there and
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On page 59 he says, “I am the most honest man I know.” In this passage Nick is talking about all of the virtues he has and tells the readers that he is the single most honest man he knows. While reading The Great Gatsby one can scrutinize Nick and find out that indeed he is not an honest man. As the book goes on we find out that he is in fact the opposite of an honest man. He is a very unreliable narrator and one may not want to trust what he has to say all of the time. He lies just like Gatsby and he tries so desperately to fit in with all of the upper class residents. But we see glimpses of him slipping ever so slightly such as the night of the party when he pays attention to the servants on page 39 “And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.” Instead of being just like the upper class that just goes about their business he takes time to acknowledge the servants. He notices what the servants are doing, when they are coming, and how many of them are coming. He takes time to look at the servants and acknowledge their presence unlike his superior class that he tries so desperately to conform to but every once in a while he slips up just the tiniest bit and we can see
On page 59 he says, “I am the most honest man I know.” In this passage Nick is talking about all of the virtues he has and tells the readers that he is the single most honest man he knows. While reading The Great Gatsby one can scrutinize Nick and find out that indeed he is not an honest man. As the book goes on we find out that he is in fact the opposite of an honest man. He is a very unreliable narrator and one may not want to trust what he has to say all of the time. He lies just like Gatsby and he tries so desperately to fit in with all of the upper class residents. But we see glimpses of him slipping ever so slightly such as the night of the party when he pays attention to the servants on page 39 “And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.” Instead of being just like the upper class that just goes about their business he takes time to acknowledge the servants. He notices what the servants are doing, when they are coming, and how many of them are coming. He takes time to look at the servants and acknowledge their presence unlike his superior class that he tries so desperately to conform to but every once in a while he slips up just the tiniest bit and we can see