How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter 3 of "The Great Gatsby".

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Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter 3.

In Chapter 3 Fitzgerald uses structure to tell the story by his order of the chapter. Fitzgerald starts off with Nick providing social commentary about the developing scenes at one of Gatsby's parties emphasising his contempt for the people who seemingly use Gatsby for his party but also emphases Nick's role as an outsider in the book. Fitzgerald continues this throughout the chapter to build up to Gatsby being revealed to the audience through Nick by using Nicks narrative to constantly build up Gatsby's character through the order of the chapter, Nick is then invited ceremonially by Gatsby to attend one of his party's in which they eventually meet, and when he arrives at the party he begins to hear rumours about Gatsby 'he was a German spy in the war' which builds up the readers expectations of Gatsby and then they press on and are confronted by the Owl eyed man where once again Gatsby is mentioned 'this fella's a regular Belasco' which raises the audiences interest in him once again. After that Nick is talking to a fellow soldier from the war who is