Great Gatsby
Jordan Voit
Pg 50

The nature of Mr. Tostoff’s composition eluded me, because just as it began my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes. His tanned skin was drawn attractively tight on his face and his short hair looked as though it were trimmed every day. I could see nothing sinister about him. I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased. When the Jazz History of the World was over, girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms, even into groups, knowing that some one would arrest their falls- but no one swooned backward on Gatsby, and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder, and no singing quarters were formed with Gatsby’s head for one link.

This paragraph comes during the party where Nick meets Gatsby for the first time. Nick notices Gatsby peering out in to the crowd. Show Gatsby is happy that everyone is having a great time. Even just watching everyone else have fun makes Gatsby feel pleasant. This moment say with Nick because he could go into great detail about Gatsby’s face. Gatsby doesn’t drink might contribute to not having a girl by his side. Everyone else has drunk their fill and is a little out of it. Gatsby is portrayed as being larger then life compared to his guest. He is the only one that can keep his wits about him. The girls are very childish but at the same time looking find a guy. Fitzgerald goes to in great detail about how the girls are so playful and happy to set us up to tell us that no girl fell into Gatsby’s arms. Even though its Gatsby’s party no one is paying attention to him. Even the ones that are there uninvited don’t thank him or even bother to talk to him. Gatsby has all this wealth and no one to share it will. It comes back to the saying “money doesn’t buy everything.” Even with no one Gatsby is not sad or upset he has no one or no one appreciates that he threw the party. Gatsby seems at peace with himself.