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Night § At night, Gatsby’s house came alive with people. For what? A chance to find someone that knew Daisy. These were not just ordinary parties. Every week food and lawn decorations would come to his door to start the party scene all over again (p44). § “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars (p43).” This sentence makes Gatsby’s parties seem whimsical and dreamlike. Blue used as an adjective to his gardens makes them feel more exotic than normal gardens. They sound as though they would contain tropical flowers and even possibly birds. Used in this sentence it does not seem to mean sad, as the color blue is usually associated with. Comparing the people in the garden to moths made them seem like they would move around a lot and not stay in the same spot. Maybe all the people came towards the light like real moths do. In the parties the lights could just mean the brightness of Gatsby’s house, as Nick always noticed it was, or it could be Gatsby. He could have “given off light” as he was positive and his dreams were coming a reality. § The cover of the book features a picture with a face in the middle of a night sky. There are also lights in the background. These lights could simply be the lights from a big city, such as New York where the story takes place. They also could have just been the lights and the chaos that would be in Gatsby’s backyard in the weekend. The night sky makes the face look more mysterious and almost ghostlike because the face is merely outlined against the dark background.
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