Why Is Weddings Important In The Great Gatsby

Weddings, parties, funerals and more, are common things depicted in novels that I feel have great significance. A wedding symbolizes love and a bond that is not to be broken. When there is a wedding in a novel, it is always important because it often shows important events that happen during the wedding or that are related to it. Parties can and cannot be significant. Occasionally, parties are put into novels just to add sme character and give some insight on to how the people in the book act in this type of setting. Funerals are similar to weddings. Funerals almost always deal with something important to the whole novel. When funerals are in books, from my experience, they are in the beginning, middle, or end, it adds on to the emotional pull that the novel has on the reader. The thing

Death and funerals, I feel, are the most alluring things to add into a novel. The scenes that obtain these things, grab your attention and peek your curiosity, you always want to know why/how someone passed or why so and so did not show up to the funeral.

In The Great Gatsby, a lot of parties are held throughout the novel, but the book ends with a lonely funeral. From the beginning of the novel, Gatsby is hosting parties hoping that eventually Daisy will attend one, the parties in this novel contribute to how deep Gatsby’s feelings for Daisy were. He purposely resided in a house that was across the lake from where Daisy was living