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How does the party represent the façade that Gatsby puts forth?

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These people think they know each other, but truly, they're all alone. They don't really understand each other, and this leads to a sort of isolation.

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The dream of obtaining wealth is often blinding, leading to the actions similar to those of these salesman.

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Those who are wealth separate themselves from others, believing themselves superior in every way.

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Here, it's reinforced that the party is mainly comprised of people who want to take advantage of Gatsby, either making money or joy in the process. Nobody truly cares about Gatsby, instead having their own ulterior motives.

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The party splits itself into social standings, stratifying. This reveals the nature of these parties to attract many different kinds of wealthy, but also its lack of power in forcing them to mix and mingle.

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The party itself is filled with people who are restless and forever moving, a side effect of wealth. The party also rarely contains people who matter in any way to Gatsby.

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Nothing out of the ordinary here.

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Nothing out of the ordinary here.

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The people here are hungry for wealth and power, desperately taking advantage of the rich guests of Gatsby.

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The people who attend the party are akin to flies. They flit back and forth, and don't care at all about Gatsby. There's also a sense of impermanence and unimportance to these people.

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There's a swarm of people who believes themselves above others, morally and superficially. They represent the "old money", those with generational wealth.

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"I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about. . . . I was sure they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key."

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Homogeneity:
the quality or state of being all the same or all of the same kind.

Staid:
sedate, respectable, and unadventurous.

Spectroscopic:
the branch of science concerned with the investigation and measurement of spectra produced when matter interacts with or emits electromagnetic radiation.
Could be about heavy analysis and watching something closely.

Gayety:
the state or quality of being lighthearted or cheerful.

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"The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath" (pg. 40)

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"Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country side - East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety." (pg. 44)