The setting for most of the third chapter is at one of Gatsby's many extravagant house parties. Nick points out that among the many guests who had traveled to enjoy the party and all of its accolades, " I was one of the few guest who had actually been invited" (Fitzgerald 41). One constant theme of the party is the overall mystery surrounding Gatsby. Although most of the apathetic guests do not give much mind, Nick does notice that the host of this grand party is in fact no where to be found. This and the talks and murmurs Nick exchanges with some of the other attendants even more convolutes the image of this enigmatic man. Nick is quite taking back when one girl in a hushed voice tells him, "Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once", and then later, Jordan Baker informs Nick she had heart he was an Oxford man before quickly rejecting the statement (Fitzgerald 44). While contemplating the ambiguities of Gatsby's pass, Nick said something that caught my attention, "But young men didn't- at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't- drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound" (Fitzgerald 49). Extracting from the countless droves of organized crime movies I have witnessed, I would have to assume that Gatsby is a regular Tony Montana... well maybe without the violent lust for killing and the Cuban accent. In all seriousness, however, I do have a firm belief that this wealth that Gatsby has so mysteriously accrued can be ascribed to some kind of illegal organized business.
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