- Gatsby is known for throwing extravagant parties
- Guest mill around exchanging rumors about their host
- No one seems to know the truth about Gatsby's wealth or personal history
- Nick runs into Jordan Baker, whose friend, Lucille, speculates that Gatsby was a German spy during the war
- Nick also hears that Gatsby is a graduate of Oxford and that he once killed a man in cold blood
- Nick and Jordan, curious about their host, set out to find Gatsby
- Instead, they run into a middle-aged man with huge, owl-eyed spectacles- whom Nick dubs Owl Eyes
- who sits poring over the unread books in Gatsby’s library
- Gatsby has a habit calling everyone "old sport"
- Does not drink
- Keeps himself separately from his own party
- Nick follows the advice of Daisy and Tom and begins seeing Jordan Baker
- Nick says that Jordan is fundamentally a dishonest person
- He even knows that she cheated in her first golf tournament
- Nick feels attracted to her despite her dishonesty, even though he himself claims to be one of the few honest people he has ever known

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Now It's A Party? Gatsby Chapter 3
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