Party Time!

Well in the book The Great Gatsby there is an aspect that can't be ignored and that is Gatsby's parties. He likes to party... HARD. I mean he holds these big-[butt] parties. Nick is just flabbergasted by the largeness of these parties. At one point he even thinks that his freaking house is on fire. At least he is able to attend the parties and enjoy them. Of course Fitzgerald never mentions the poor neighbor of the other side of Gatsby's...

Anyways, back to the parties, I personally think that these are held by Gatsby as a way for him to escape from his troubled life. It's kind of hard to be depressed if you are surrounded by a bunch of drunk partying people. Not only that but, like parties nowadays, the music is probably too loud for Gatsby to hear his own thoughts. I mean when Nick first goes to one of Gatsby’s parties there’s  “a hole pitiful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.” (p. 40) Although it's hard to compare an orchestra to let's say Party Rock Anthem, back then this was what people partied to. So, for his time, Gatsby was the symbol of a controversial and outrageous partier. And if you compare that to now, well...

How the times have changed...