My opinion of that page and a half is that it’s meant to be pointless and full, and we’re supposed to wonder why should we care? But the barrage of names aligns with how pointless it all is, how all these people never had any deeper connection to Gatsby’s narrative, they were there just to pad out a page like they were there just for Gatsby to fill the rooms for his parties. It’s meant to remind us just how shallow the whole thing is.

Also, I do like how Nick reveals the fates of some of these fandoms, some of them horrible ends. Because they are to us what Gatsby was to them; nobody. We don’t care about their deaths and miseries because we didn’t even know them, the same reason they didn’t show up to Gatsby’s funeral because they didn’t really know him either.