ening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads ofharlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.” (40) He has famous singers that entertain his guests whom are the most well knownand richest people. There is an orchestra with “oboes and trombones andsaxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.” (40) People do not even have to be invited to come to his parties. Car loads ofpeople arrive at his celebrations. Movie directors, actresses and manycelebrities attend his extravaganzas. All these things make his parties wellknown by everyone. Apart from the fantasy world of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald also invest hisquest with a religious motif. The author portrays him as a worshipper of his“holy” love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby made a covenant reminiscent to Daisy ofthe Old Testament when he climbed to her and kissed her. The promise is thathe will be with her again. He climbs the sidewalk blocks that “form a ladder andmount to a secret place above the trees” that can be connected to Jacob’sLadder to heaven “and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp downthe incomparable milk of wonder.” (112) He devotes his life to trying to getDaisy back into his life by first becoming rich and then by getting her attentionwith his possessions and parties. He even builds his house directly across thebay and facing the Buchanan’s house. Gatsby is also likened to a chivalricknight. His outrageous car may be paralleled to a great white horse of a knight. His quest for Daisy is identical to the quest of medieval knights who sought theHoly Grail. At night he stands out in front of his house with his “arms stretchedout” toward Daisy’s green dock light. (21) Comparable to a knight’s vigil,Gatsby also stays at Daisy’s window all night staring at the light trying to protecth...
