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Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
“So The Great Gatsby house at West Egg glittered with all the lights of the twenties, there were was always Gatsby’s supplicating hand, reaching out to make glamour with what he had lost be cruel chance...of how little Gatsby wanted at bottom-not to understand society, but to ape it”(21-22). The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald features constant parties, glamorous houses, and extravagance to reveal the values of the characters and the society they live in.   F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby exemplifies the innate values and morals of its characters and the society in which they live by using continual partying, glamorous houses, and extraordinary extravagance.
The ridiculous wealth and obvious garishness of Gatsby’s parties reveals the reckless values of West Egg society. Nick observes that, “There was music from my neighbor’s house all through summer nights. In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars…” (22). Every night, random assortments of people come and go, “like moths” moving towards the light of Gatsby’s parties and wealth. These West Eggers conduct themselves “ according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks”(48). West Egg society focuses on spending their money rather than keeping the money like East Egg society. Instead of being polite and refined, West Eggers, who have “new money”, are outspoken and rude in the eyes of East Egg society. At first sight, Daisy “…was appalled by the West Egg, this unprecedented ‘place’ that Broadway had begotten a Long Island fishing village-appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fact that herded its inhabitants along a short cur from nothing to nothing”(98). Daisy’s reaction to West Egg characterizes the values of West Egg society, in its endless garishness and extravagance apparently garish and overly extravagant. She sees West Egg as if with new eyes,...