Parties In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are several parties that take place in the novel that provide the reader with insight on the characters. At each party the reader gains new information about the major characters. At the first festivity, it is in Tom Buchanan's house in East Egg, a large and elaborate house , owned by Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Tom , Nick , Daisy , and Jordan have dinner. It is a private dinner party, and the conversation that takes place during this dinner, includes talking about other people, and Jordan enlightening Nick on Tom’s affair with Myrtle.
The second party, is at Myrtle's house, a get together, in New York. It has a little bit to do with Tom’s gathering in East egg. He is more controlling , but

And Nick finds out that he is very violent and sees how completely wrong in doing that , and doing something a gentleman should not do. This bash was used by Myrtle to show off Tom. The third celebration, Nick is invited by Gatsby. “ I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house, I was one of the few guests who actually been invited.”(“Fitzgerald” 41) The others arrive knowing only that there will be a party and they won't be turned away. At the party Nick tries to find Gatsby , but no luck. No one can tell where he is , they said they didn't know who the host even was , people just came uninvited. As Nick roams around the party , he sees Jordan Baker, “And I like parties they're so intimate, at small parties there isn't any privacy.” (“Fitzgerald” 54) , the two of them were being eavesdroppers while hanging around, listening to rumors about Gatsby, Saying that he once killed a man. Later on, Jordan talks with Gatsby privately , then Nick finally meets him. The fourth party,

He shows a different side of him , from his party, to Myrtle's party. Daisy refers to him as many things , especially a brute man she calls him. Tom clearly dislikes when she says that about him, and wants her to think more positive about him. When Tom is with Myrtle, during the party, he does not like how she refers to Daisy. He lashes out at Myrtle , and hits her. “ Tom is blind to his hypocrisy; with a “short deft movement” he breaks her nose for daring to mention the name of the wife she is helping him to deceive” (“Charles Thomas Samuels 82”).Violence would not be tolerated in East Egg , but in New York, with Myrtle who comes from the Valley of Ashes , he is able to lash out physically. “ Fitzgerald clearly delinates class difference through his employment of setting” (“Critical Evaluation”). “The valley of ashes is “nowhere,” a place to be driven through on the way to “somewhere” by characters from both East and West Egg”(Critical Evaluation”). “East and West Egg are crushed flat at the contact end”; they represent the collision of dream and dreamer which is dramatized” (“Charles Thomas Samuels 82”). Nick finds out that Tom is not what he used to think of him, he finds out that he is very violent , and sees how completely corrupt he is , and that he does something a gentleman should not be doing. Myrtle has this kind of