Gatsby's parties are attended by a bunch of people who don't know him or care to know him. They care about "chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names." In other words, they are often vapid and usually vain, interested in nothing serious like actually getting to know someone. They seem to come only to have a good time and...
Gatsby's parties are attended by a bunch of people who don't know him or care to know him. They care about "chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names." In other words, they are often vapid and usually vain, interested in nothing serious like actually getting to know someone. They seem to come only to have a good time and get roaring drunk. This includes a few people from East Egg—the more fashionable of the "Eggs" where the old money set live—and then there are many more people from West Egg: people involved in the film or theater industries, people who came to gamble, and others who seem to have no occupation or even another place to go (Klipspringer seems to live at Gatsby's and is known as "the boarder"). In all, it's a pretty rowdy crowd, mostly people who lack the refinement and manners of East Egg residents like Tom and Daisy. This is a mostly West Egg crowd, and they are unsophisticated and gauche by comparison. However, they are noisy and seem to have a good time, and so Gatsby welcomes them again and again (until Daisy professes her dislike of them and his parties cease altogether).
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