Wealth and prosperity
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"There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whispering and he champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his motor-boats slid the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains.(3.43)"
The parties that Gatsby hosts is a way for Gatsby to display his wealth and as we find out later in the book a way of re-connecting with Daisy. People that are wealthy are represented as being very lavish and not worrying about anything