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A very strange scene concerns the motif of alcoholism and the tertiary characters Nick Carraway and Chester McKee. Nick suddenly finds himself alone with Chester in his room. Chester is under the sheets in his underwear, showing him a portfolio of photos. Nick seems very disoriented, almost as if he's been drugged. One of them says, "Beauty and the Beast... Loneliness... Old Grocery Horse... Brook'n Bridge" (Fitzgerald 38). "Beauty and the Beast" could be an allusion to Daisy and Tom, given his bestial abusiveness. "Loneliness" seems to refer to all of them. Rich Americans used to use "grocery horses" to save them trips to the store (like Instacart). "Brook'n Bridge" exemplifies another motif—characters' tendencies to use dialect when some kind of moral dissolution is afoot.
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What is this odd moment of intimacy between two men trying to suggest? A dissolution of Nick's morals? The dangers of losing self-control? Could it be an omen of more compromising situations to come? It makes me wonder about the relationship between alcoholism and inhibitions, and the degree to which the novel is arguing that self-restraint is a good or bad thing. It does not seem impossible to imagine, for example, that we're meant to associate Nick with a potentially illicit tryst, and imagine him having a crush on Gatsby... he does seem obsessed with his smile and demeanor, after all.

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