People arrive at 's
house without an invitation because his parties are basically a come-one, come-all sort of
affair. He does not really issue invitations; he just opens up his house every weekend and
people are free to comeat least until he is reunited with , and then the parties stop because
she does not like them.
says that, on the night he first goes over to
Gatsby's house, he was "one of the few guests who had actually been invited." Gatsby
had sent his chauffeur over with an invitation earlier that day. People usually do not get
invited to the parties, though; they simply show up. Nick describes the way they would jump into
their cars and arrive on Long Island, sometimes introduced by someone who does actually know the
host, and sometimes coming and going without having met or known Gatsby at all. He says that
they come to Gatsby's house "with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of
admission."
Once there, people act like they might at an "amusement
park," Nick says, and they drink and dance and party and carouse until into the wee hours
of the morning. In short, people arrive without invitation because they can, because this is the
custom, and because Gatsby seems to be hoping that Daisy will saunter into one of his parties
one dayaslater explains.
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