GATSBY PARTY

FITZGERALD BEGINS CH. 3 BY DESCRIBING A

GATSBY PARTY

GATSBY PARTY

• AS YOU READ, CONSIDER..
• Fitzgerald's use of language to describe the parties

• specific word choices, phrasing, and integration of figurative language

• The specific details Fitzgeralds includes about the party
• What do these details reveal about Gatsby?

HIGHLIGHT THIS PASSAGE

CH. 3 / PAGE 32

CH. 3 / PAGE 32

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. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb.

FRIVOLOUS SPENDING

FRIVOLOUS SPENDING

Gatsby's spends frivolously on his parties, ordering 5 crates of oranges and lemons.

FRIVOLOUS SPENDING

FRIVOLOUS SPENDING

• assume a crate has about 4 dozen
• = about $2.52 per crate
• In 2026, $2.52 = about $50!

APPROXIMATE TOTAL SPENT ON CITRUS:

$250

• this doens't even include the labor cost of a butler to juice the citrus!

• let's assume the butler is paid about $35 a month ($700 in 2026)

= approx. $275 JUST on citrus juice!

A "GATSBY PARTY"

A "GATSBY PARTY"

ANNOTATION

• After reading about the details of a Gatsby party (p. 32-33)

• Create ONE CASE annotations with your group mates

Ex.

HIGHLIGHT P. 32/33

• What does Nick receive that most guests don't?
• MAKE A PREDICTION
• next to this highlight, create a written annotation with a prediction to answer this question....WHY would Nick receive this when no one else does?

Ms. Flores must check your annotation before moving on!

NICK'S INVITATION

I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited — they went there.

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, OLD SPORT

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, OLD SPORT

WHO IS GATSBY

• Annotate
• Identify the rumors spread about Gatsby during the party (p. 35-36)
• Create at least 1 annotation about why these rumors are significant

HISTORY: UNCUT BOOKS

• For a long period of time, books were bought "uncut" with pages attached at the ends.
• pages would be cut as you read

“See!” he cried triumphantly. “It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when tostop, too — didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?”

• Create an annotation here, exploring what the uncut books reveal about Gatsby's character.

Ms. Flores must check your annotation before moving on!