Traveling with Cody to the Barbary Coast and the West Indies, Gatsby fell in love with wealth and luxury. Cody was a heavy drinker, and one of Gatsby's jobs was to look after him during his drunken binges. This gave Gatsby a healthy respect for the dangers of alcohol and convinced him not to become a drinker himself.
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Though the alcohol flows freely at Gatsby's house parties, he refrains from drinking. He likely sees the effect of alcohol on his guests, as it causes a general loosening of inhibitions.
Though Gatsby always ensures his guests have their fill of champagne, he rarely drinks it. Nick reveals why Gatsby doesn't drink much in chapter six. As a young man, Gatsby worked on Dan Cody's yacht, where women would rub champagne into his hair during parties.
In Chapter VI, along with the revelation of Gatsby's past and connection to Dan Cody, it is also discovered that indirectly, Cody serves as the reason why Gatsby drinks so little; in parties, women would swathe his hair in champagne.
“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.”
Water has been a transformative medium throughout Gatsby's life and some people believe his death within the pool symbolizes a sort of baptism, cleansing Gatsby's soul and the renewal of his life after death.
They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild, but [Daisy] came out with an absolutely perfect reputation. Perhaps because she doesn't drink. It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.
Daisy's behavior during and after the fatal car crash with Myrtle Wilson reinforces the carelessness and selfishness that the novel suggests defines the period. Possibly drunk from the day in the city, Daisy carelessly strikes Myrtle with Gatsby's car.
It was indirectly due to Cody that Gatsby drank so little. Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone. And it was from Cody that he inherited money—a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn't get it.
The gin rickey was actually featured in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby.” In it, Daisy and Gatsby take “long, greedy swallows” of their gin-and-lime concoctions. Pour lime juice and gin into an old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.
In The Great Gatsby, drinking alcohol to excess is a part of everyday life; they drink alcohol regularly without concern. The source of alcohol is likely bootlegged, especially since money is not a barrier for the wealthy like Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan.
Nick states that there is a “quality of distortion” to life in New York, and this lifestyle makes him lose his equilibrium, especially early in the novel, as when he gets drunk at Gatsby's party in Chapter 2.
Relationship 1: Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. The relationship at the very heart of The Great Gatsby is, of course, Gatsby and Daisy, or more specifically, Gatsby's tragic love of (or obsession with) Daisy, a love that drives the novel's plot.
Author Daisy Buchanan, 38, is one of the growing number of Brits to quit drinking alcohol for good. Drinking had previously taken her to some dark emotional places.
Daisy does not enjoy the party. In fact, she is "offended" by it, especially by the people who are in attendance. Daisy dislikes the fact that so many people "push their way in" to Gatsby's home instead of waiting for an official invite, as is commonly practiced in the East Egg.
First, it is his way of showing the world that he is a member of high society. Gatsby is obsessed with proving himself, after growing up in poverty. These parties allow him to flaunt his wealth and earn the adoration of other socialites. Second, they are designed as a lure for Daisy.
He notices that Gatsby does not drink and that he keeps himself separate from the party, standing alone on the marble steps, watching his guests in silence. At two o'clock in the morning, as husbands and wives argue over whether to leave, a butler tells Jordan that Gatsby would like to see her.
It is a scene which is casually analyzed as symbolic of the recklessness of Gatsby's parties and the carelessness of his guests.
Nick Carraway is in a sanitarium.
In the film, Nick is writing from a sanitarium, where he's checked himself in sometime following his summer with Gatsby and has been diagnosed as a "morbid alcoholic," among other things.
In perhaps one of the great ironies of the novel, Daisy kills Myrtle when Myrtle runs in front of Gatsby's car. It is a hit and run. The irony is that the wife kills her husband's mistress without knowing that it's his mistress.
Although Daisy may have loved Gatsby once, she does not love him more than the wealth, status, and freedom that she has with Tom.
First, Daisy Buchanan is the driver of the mysterious “death car”—she's the one who accidentally runs over and kills Myrtle. This is ironic because while the reader knows that Tom Buchanan had been having an affair with Myrtle, Daisy has no idea that the woman she killed was her husband's mistress.
We are told that Gatsby came up from essentially nothing, and that the first time he met Daisy Buchanan, he was “a penniless young man.” His fortune, we are told, was the result of a bootlegging business – he “bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago” and sold illegal alcohol over the counter.
In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties attended by people who are basically strangers to him. He wants to impress Daisy with his wealth and he hopes she will attend one of his parties. When she never shows up he employs the assistance of Nick, who is Daisy's cousin.
Nick is left to organise Gatsby's funeral. Daisy and Tom have left town. Wolfshiem refuses to come. Hundreds of people attended Gatsby's parties but no-one comes to his funeral apart from Nick, Gatsby's father, and some servants.