The Great Gatsby chapter 3 notes

VOCAB

GATSBY'S PARTY

"vacuous bursts of laughter"- party sounds artificial
"men and girls went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars"- "Moths"= drawn to the party
"spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold"
laughter is easier minuite by minuite, spilled with prodigality, tipped out a cheerful word"
"conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park"- careless attitudes
"came to the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission"- single goal= to party, desire to indulge in their pleasures- headonists
"while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose towards the summer sky"
"finger bowls"- amount of alchohol they are consuming
hedonistic characters who are clear representations of the upper classes- everything about them is excessive
"christmas tree"- strangeness as height of summer
"pyramid of pulpless halves"- higherachy, using up their youth/vitality, go there to make themselves whole
"opera of voices"= staged, fake, substanceless

SYMBOLISIM OF CAR SCENE (END OF PARTY)

symbolic of consequences of hedonisim- forshadowing the crash of this unsustainable lifestyle- futility of trying to go backwards in the jazz age
representation of society is found in the pathetic/incompetent drunk party goers "no harm in trying"- futile
"put her in reverse"- link to Gatsby's attempt to repeat the past
"I didn't notice we'd stopped"- finishes with event of extreme carelesness/recklessness
"sudden emptiness", "glowing", "surviving" (p 37)
"a formal gesture of farewell"- in isolation, apart from rest of society- series of gestures

GATSBY

Gatsby is intangeable until we meet him- "german spy"- "doesn't want trouble with anybody"- "he was in the American army"- "I…

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