In "The Great Gatsby", does Gatsby really believe, as he tells Daisy, that his house is always full of interesting, famous people?Chapter 5

    It is hard to say. Although Gatsby spends an extravagant amount of money on his parties, he doesn't even participate in the partying as you see in chapter three. He stays on the outskirts and observes. This detail evokes the idea that he does not want to spend his time talking to the people that come to his parties. However, I think that he wants to believe that they are all famous and interesting, because if he believed anything else, then he wouldn't have achieved what he has set out to achieve. The perfect, interesting, extravagant, American life. Deep down, I think that he knows that the people that come to his parties are rather shallow and uninteresting; but, when it has to do with Daisy, reality for him is skewed and at the time he truly believes what he says to her.