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   Chapter 3 also focuses on the gap between perception and reality. At the party, as he looks through Gatsby’s books, Owl Eyes states that Gatsby has captured the effect of theater, a kind of mingling of honesty and dishonesty that characterizes Gatsby’s approach to this dimension of his life. The party itself is a kind of elaborate ...

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   Analysis. Every Saturday night, Gatsby throws incredibly luxurious parties at his mansion. Nick eventually receives an invitation. At the party, he feels out of place, and notes that the party is filled with people who haven't been invited and who appear "agonizingly" aware of the "easy money" surrounding them.

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   Oct 3, 2024 · In chapter three of The Great Gatsby, Nick has been hand-delivered an invitation to one of Gatsby's parities. Other people just seem to show up and are never invited. They take advantage of Gatsby ...

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   Nick notes that Gatsby often flashes charming smiles and calls everyone "old sport". Nick is intrigued by Gatsby because he stands back from the festivities, seeming to take pleasure in watching, rather than joining in. At around two in the morning, a butler comes to Jordan and asks her to go meet Gatsby. When she comes back to Nick, Jordan ...

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   Summary and Analysis Chapter 3. Summary. Nick's attentions again turn to Gatsby in Chapter 3. Gatsby, in the summer months, was known far and wide for the extravagant parties he threw in which "men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars." During the weekend, people flocked to his house for his ...

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   The publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920, made Fitzgerald a literary star. He married Zelda one week later. In 1924, the couple moved to Paris, where Fitzgerald began work on The Great Gatsby. Though now considered his masterpiece, the novel sold only modestly. The Fitzgeralds returned to the United States in 1927.

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   What happens in Chapter 3 of Gatsby?

   • The reader has seen Gatsby from a distance, heard other characters talk about him, and listened to Nick’s thoughts about him, but has not actually met him (nor has Nick). Chapter 3 is devoted to the introduction of Gatsby and the lavish, showy world he inhabits.

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   How does Nick find Gatsby?

   • At the party, Nick tries to find Gatsby, but has no luck. No one can tell him where Gatsby is, suggesting that they, themselves, didn't know the host. As Nick mills around the party, he encounters Jordan Baker and the two of them two mingle around, inadvertently gathering rumors about Gatsby, including that he had once killed a man.

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   What is the plot of the Great Gatsby?

   • F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death.

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   What does Nick say about Jay Gatsby?

   • The man introduces himself as Jay Gatsby. Nick notes that Gatsby often flashes charming smiles and calls everyone "old sport". At around two in the morning, a butler comes to Jordan and asks her to go meet Gatsby. When she comes back to Nick, Jordan tells him that she has just been told an "amazing" story she will tell him later.

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   Why do Nick and Jordan go to Gatsby's library?

   • The party's incredible luxury seems to be the fulfillment of the American Dream. Nick and Jordan decide to find their mysterious host, and wander into Gatsby's library. There they meet a short, somewhat drunk man who wears owl-like glasses (and whom Nick refers to as Owl-Eyes).

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   Are the books in Gatsby's library real?

   • Nick and Jordan venture to find their unknown host, and end up in Gatsby's library. There, they encounter a small, somewhat inebriated man wearing glasses like an owl (whom Nick dubs Owl Eyes). This man is astounded by the fact that the books in Gatsby's vast library, while obviously unread, are actually real books.

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   This man, visibly intoxicated, is fascinated by the fact that the library’s books are real, rather than replicas. Later, Nick is approached by a man who says that he looks familiar. He asks if Nick served in the Army. Nick says yes and finds himself introduced to Gatsby himself. However, Gatsby is drawn away by a phone call from Chicago.