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  1. Describe Gatsby the first time Nick sees him. He is a middle age man, who is sitting next to a young girl and laughing, Gatsby is an Englishman with a very interesting smile, a man who was also in the war like Nick. Gatsby is a friendly person who even invites nick on a ride on his plane. He is a very happy person, even when Nick says he finds ...

  2. 1. His station wagon and a Rolls-Royce provide transportation for the guests. 2. The guests display the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. 3. He dresses up in his white flannels. 4 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Before readers are introduced to the more prominent eyes in the novel—those of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg—Nick meets a character he knows only as “Owl Eyes” at the first party he attends at Gatsby’s house. Nick comes across a drunk Owl Eyes in the library, in disbelief that all of the books in Gatsby’s library are real.

  6. To find a quotation we cite via chapter and paragraph in your book, you can either eyeball it (Paragraph 1-50: beginning of chapter; 50-100: middle of chapter; 100-on: end of chapter), or use the search function if you're using an online or eReader version of the text. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 3 Summary

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  8. 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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