Great Gatsby Quotes

“The Great Gatsby” Chapter III modern quotes connections
The book’s narrator – Nick, first meets the person after whom the book is named in the third chapter, after he is invited to visit Gatsby’s “little party” his neighbor’s butler. Nick is unique in this case, as people usually come to Gatsby’s without an invitation. They come, and treat his house as some public space, created to serve a single purpose – host the largest parties on the Long Island. At Gatsby’s people do not bother checking in with the host by saying hello and introducing themselves, they simply come and go as they please. This “no-hello” part may seem unique and unusual for a house-host party type of those days, yet a very similar situation is reflected in George Gobel’s quote “When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.” ©. The

And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” © Ron White. I found the comparison very appropriate, as lemons and oranges are mentioned at the beginning of the chapter: “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York — every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” These two ingredients – alcohol, and lemon juice seem to be an irreplaceable part of a good party. Ron White, however, uses lemons in his quote in order to represent life challenges, rather than cocktail ingredients. This representation also stays true in Chapter III of “The Great Gatsby” - guests arrive to Gatsby’s fool of “troubling juicy lemons” which have piled on their shoulders through Monday till Friday. They than get carried away and distracted at the party, which they leave in such condition, that they might be able remember about the existence of their problems (“pulpless halves”), but not care about the problem’s acrid