The Great Gatsby

The way characters treated, reacted to, and thought about one another (whether openly or not) fascinated me. When Nick is evaluating Tom and Daisy's relationship, he questions Tom's faithfulness when he gets a call during dinner from, "Some woman in New York", as Ms. Baker says. When Daisy and Tom return to the table, they are exceptionally quiet about what happened. More likely they didn't want to fight in front of house guests but they might be saving their rage at each other for another fight.

Mr Gatsby is another interesting personality in The Great Gatsby. Since he lives alone, except for a butler, he might seem secluded when he isn't having extravagant parties with people he doesn't know. He invites people he knows to the parties, but people show up that weren't invited. They just show up and blend in with the crowd. The fact that Mr. Gatsby either doesn't care or doesn't notice is strange. I'm sure he's glad to meet new people but that would become bothersome after a while. People showing up at your parties, drinking your drink, eating your food, completely uninvited.

Mr. Gatsby begins to become strange later on, firing all of his servants. His reasoning was that they were spreading rumors. He only had one servant then, besides his butler. He had someone deliver food, but no one to clean his kitchen. Daisy visited him and she said that the dishes were piled in the kitchen. At this point I questioned Gatsby's mental state and pondered why he did that.