Gatsby and Nick are both somewhat detached from their surroundings. Compare and contrast this sense of detachment. How are they similar and/or different in this respect?
In the first few chapters we get to know nick as this non judgemental, honesty mid-west guy. He doesn't drink and he wants to get into the world of trading and buying bonds.
But throughout the first four chapters he is set in theses different settings that somewhat detaches him from his familiar surroundings. A few a examples are the Buchanan's house, it was huge and fancy and mind blowing to him because it was something he wasn't use to. Then it was Tom and Myrtle's apartment where they had the party and there drinking and smoking, and the Party at Gatsby's wheres there is drinking dancing, swimming. Nick drinks to fit in and try not to be so detached from his surroundings or at least let people see it.
Gatsby seems to be having the same problem. He throws theses huge party's every week, where there's drinking and mingling and dancing and all of the above. But he never participates in the action instead he sits back and watches. Approving his guest and turnout of the party. When Gatsby talks about his past on the way to the lunch in with Nick he describes a past that doesn't seem to connect with what is going on in his future. So maybe he has went through the same process that Nick is going through but got caught up deep in the middle of it, and is now something different from what he started as.
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