Gatsby Questions

What is the meaning of the car accident in front of Gatsby's house?



Why is nick listing all the people at Gatsby's party?



Who did Tom slap and why?




Why did Gatsby leave when Nick introduced him to Tom?

Infinite Hope

He didn’t say any more,
But we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way,
And I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
In consequence,
I’m inclined to reserve all judgments,
A habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person,
And so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician,
Because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon;
For the intimate revelations of young men,
Or at least the terms in which they express them,
Are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that,
As my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat,
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

Can you Buy Hapiness?

People should never get married for the money.  That is one thing that really bothers me; when people say that they want to be in a relationship with someone with money to get them things they want.  For me it has nothing to do with money, it has everything to do with personality.  I never grew up with any nice fancy toys and I still don't have anything fancy.  I have an outdated phone and my clothes are not from Hollister or Forever 21, and I could not be happier. 

I am not gonna lie and say I never wanted something that everyone else had and it took me a long time to understand why my parents could never give me these things, but now I know that if they were to give me these things I would not be a very nice person to be around.  Not having all these materialistic items made me the person I am today and helped me understand what I need versus what I want. 

To some people this may sound dumb and they might even call me "Jesus Freak," but that is how He intended it to be and that is how it should be.  I am not going to get all crazy and talk about God and everything he has to offer but it is something to look into. 

Everyone has their own perspective on this and I get that, but would money be the reason you marry?

You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover

It takes two seconds to judge someone by the way they look.  We never really go behind the scenes and find out who a person really is unless it is necessary.  We take one look at people and say, "oh she's girly" or "oh he's a gangster" without even thinking about it.  I have tried hard not to do that but there are a few times I catch myself saying, "did you see what she was wearing? She looked like a hooker!"  And I don't mean it in a bad way, it's just the first thing that comes to my mind.  And I don't do it on purpose either, it's usually unknowingly.
Everybody wants to fit in with somebody so the easiest thing would be to change your fashion sense.  And honestly I have done it when I was in junior high and then when I got to high school I completely changed.  I felt like a lost puppy because I was always trying to be someone I'm not, I figured it would be a lot easier just to be me and there won't be any stress.  With all the different groups we have at school like the jocks, nerds, skaters, band, theatre, gangsters, and many others it is easier to put someone in a group than for everyone to be an individual.  We are constantly changing our clothing just to match and at times it might be a good thing so we fit in with society, instead of wearing clothes from the fifties or something, but if your doing it just to fit in with your friends then it is a waste of time and money.
In America we value a lot but we also take it for granted sometimes.  We are able to have a good education for free, unless your in a private school, and we have freedom, but we also have people who go breaking the laws and think that out country is worthless and doesn't do enough.  We can't exactly say that our country is great and flawless when we have stuff like this happening.
It's not just about our country though, the way we treat people and they way we "inspect" them says a lot too.  A lot of guys go around looking for the prettiest most super-model like girl and try whatever they can to get their attention.  And girls may be saying yeah that's true, but they do it too.  They go around looking for the best body or the best looking one out of all and try hard to get them interested.  I will be honest I used to be that way, but then I grew up.  I judge guys by how they treat me.  They may be good looking but if you are treating like not good enough why am I going to continue?  It is not worth all the trouble to get a guy to notice you when a relationship will probably never develop.  And another thing we judge them on is money.  We revolve around money, who has it, who doesn't have it, who's getting it, and who wants it.  To me it doesn't matter because I can be honest and say I have it, but not a lot.  And I never ask for it either because I would feel obligated to pay you back even if your my grandparents giving me money.  Looks and money are the top priority for the majority of the world and especially the school, but for me, it doesn't really matter as long as I'm being treated decent and as long as I am happy then I am all set.