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"You're a rotten driver... Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all."

Chapter 3: Gatsby's Party

"Other people are [careful]...They'll keep out of my way... It takes two to make an accident... I hope I never will [meet one]... That's why I like you."

"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

How honest can Nick be?

"I wasn't actually in love [with Jordan], but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."

One page later....

"... for a moment I thought I loved [Jordan]."

"I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: 'Love Nick'."

"They're real...Absolutely real–have pages and everything...See!... It's a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism!"

Belasco is a play director that used to try to make the action on the stage seem as real as possible.

If the scene called for cooking, he actually had the actors cook so the smell filled the air and the audience could smell it.

He was even known to pipe in smells to increase the level of realism.

So how is Gatsby like Belasco?

"...elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd..."

"He smiled understandingly...it was one of those rare smiles... it understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself..."

"...my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes..."

What is he doing?

Elaborate Parties

"On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold."

"By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived..."

"Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York..."

"The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each others' names."

"You look at him sometime when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man."

Symbol Alert

Why does Fitzgerald start this novel with rumors of Gatsby?

What are you the reader supposed to think about Gatsby?

How does the subject of the rumors affect what you think about Gatsby?

"There's something funny about a fellow that'll do a thing like that... He doesn't want any trouble with anybody."

"I don't think it's so much that... it's more that he was a German spy during the war."

"I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany."

"Oh no... it couldn't be that, because he was in the American army during the war."

Nick is "one of the few guests who had actually been invited."

"Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once."

Nick asks where Gatsby is and people "stared at [him] in such an amazed way and denied... vehemently any knowledge of his movements..."

"I've just heard the most amazing thing...It was –simply amazing... But I swore I wouldn't tell it and here I am tantalizing you."

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