The Great Gatsby (chapter 3 my opinion, review/summary)

In chapter 3, you begin to learn more about the way "rich" people act during the 1920s. You also get to finally meet the mysterious Jay Gatsby. In chapter three, Nick Carraway is invited to a party at his mysterious neighbors house. As Nick enters the party, he acknowledges every piece of the party. He describes the party as "At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening horsd'oeurves, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guest were too young to know one from another. (page 44) The significance of this is that during this time, alcohol was banned and because he was so rich, he had enough to set up a bar and stock it up with alcohol. He then tries to find Jay Gatsby by asking several other people at the party, he then realizes none of them or more than half never even met Jay Gatsby "-the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movement that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table-" (page 46) I was one of the few guest that who had actually been invited." (page 45) Later that evening he happens to spot Jordan and she invites him to stay with her party (group of people she came with to the party) They then begin to discuss Jay Gatsby, they quote rumors they have heard because they do not know the truth and are too scared to even find out the truth about Jay Gatsby "Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once" "it's more he was a German spy during the war" "I head that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany" "it couldn't be that, he was in the American army during the war" (all on page 48) Jordan and Nick both leave to find this mysterious Jay Gatsby. When they get to a door,  they opened it to find "a stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books." (page 49) He was drunk and talked nonsense "Did I tell you about the books? They're real" "I've been dunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library." (page 50)  The significance of this man they found is that he has been drunk for the past week. He is a "rich" fellow who does not have a care in the world. Stating, rich people, like him, are people who do not care about what the consequences and just live their life without worries because "money can solve everything" After Jordan and Nick experience the weird encounter, they go to sit and "We were sitting at a table with a man of about my age and a rowdy little girl...'Your face is familiar" (page 51) This how Nick meets Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby often leaves Nick and Jordan to take business calls and then later on ask to speak to Jordan in private. Because of this discussion in private, Nick is left alone to examine the "rich" people who are so selfish and worry free. As he was leaving he was saying his remarks to Jay Gatsby, until a car accident occurred in the driveway of the Gatsby home. "Surprisingly" it was the man who Jordan and Nick had met in the library that evening. He was still drunk, so drunk he did not even know he was in an accident. The significance of this again shows how careless rich people can be. He did not even apologize to Gatsby and did not care to know if someone else was in the other vehicle or if his car was even okay because he would probably just go buy a new one with all his "valuable" money.