The Great Gatsby
What is Daisy’s real response to the party, according to Nick?
Chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby
Chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby
Nick says that Daisy thought the party was rather vulgar excessive.
.."the rest offended her — and inarguably, because it wasn’t a gesture but an emotion. She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented “place” that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village — appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand." Ch 6