因为我看书一般都是一口气看的，所以就没有分上下，既然要分上下打卡，那我就按照我阅读的进行划分。

第三章主人公Gatsby终于出现了。而且出现的方式还真有点让人摸不到思路。一直看下去觉得主人公估计第三章又不打算出现了。结果Gatsby随便和一个人聊了会天，却发现这个人就是Gatsby。这倒是让我想到了现在的很多电视剧，似乎经常会出现这样的男主角登场的套路。看来经典就是经典，果然被很多电电视剧编辑给借用了这样的套路。

而Gatsby这个主人公这样出场，似乎也透露出Gatsby的一点点小心思。他想要在不认识他的人口中得知自己在他人眼中的形象，他人对他做如何评价。同时，在他人知道Gatsby真正的身份的时候，他又会展示出自己的上层社会的这样一种形象给他人。可见，Gatsby对自己的社会形象非常的在意。

以下我选了2 个问题回答：

1. Find support for this statement; “Gatsby’s parties were expensive, elaborate, raucous affairs, but they were not gatherings of his friends who brought warmth and happiness with them.”

    In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

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.

At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening horsd’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.

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. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.

这几句都是文章描写Gatsby聚会的盛大，奢靡，但是，从中也可以看出，之后少数的人是Gatsby真正邀请过来参加的。而绝大部分都是自己不请自来为了来喝酒，为了体会奢侈的生层生活来蹭饭的。这些人彼此认识的人很少，更不用说认识主人Gatsby了。可见，大家对于Gatsby根本没有真正的关心，人家关心的是他的钱。

2. What is Nick’s opinion of the people at the parties when he says “Once there [guests] conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park”? 

在Nick眼中，这些人就是来娱乐的。是否关心主人这些人根本不关心。这些人不过就是为了浪而已。而Nick实际上在我看来并不是看的上这些人。