His home right next to Nick’s is a imitation of some hotel de ville in Normandy, with many luscious add ons to it, featuring a tower on one side, his walls thinly covered with raw ivy, and a very elegant marble swimming pool. His home is meant to be extremely flashy, reflecting on how Gatsby likes to show off what he has to try to impress Daisy and get her to notice him, which is why he chose that exact mansion right across the water from her. His He throws parties at his house every weekend, with the music and lavish decorations at his mansion, it is estimated to have costed him around 250,000 in today’s dollars. This shows how Gatsby is very incautious on how much money he spends. He wants everyone to think that he is a newly rich man that made his money legally through hard work, and by throwing these parties at his mansion the more and more he thinks it will cover up his past. Gatsby’s layout of his snazzy looking mansion really shows that he embraces his social class, and his lack of
His home right next to Nick’s is a imitation of some hotel de ville in Normandy, with many luscious add ons to it, featuring a tower on one side, his walls thinly covered with raw ivy, and a very elegant marble swimming pool. His home is meant to be extremely flashy, reflecting on how Gatsby likes to show off what he has to try to impress Daisy and get her to notice him, which is why he chose that exact mansion right across the water from her. His He throws parties at his house every weekend, with the music and lavish decorations at his mansion, it is estimated to have costed him around 250,000 in today’s dollars. This shows how Gatsby is very incautious on how much money he spends. He wants everyone to think that he is a newly rich man that made his money legally through hard work, and by throwing these parties at his mansion the more and more he thinks it will cover up his past. Gatsby’s layout of his snazzy looking mansion really shows that he embraces his social class, and his lack of