In my opinion Gatsby has parties for many diiferent reasons, however his reasons do not include liking parties, liking the people who go to his parties, knowing the people who go to his parties, special occasions or any reason why most normal people would have parties.  In my opinion Gatsby has parties for two reasons, because he is severely confused about his position in life and so that he can attract Daisy’s attention.  Gatsby is severly confused about his position in life, he doesn’t understand the fact that he has more or less reached the highest point on his “ladder”, “a secret place above the trees” as Fitzgerald mentioned in a metaphor at the end of chapter 6.  He thinks that he can still better himself and so he continues to have parties and go to work, even though he has enough money to live very comfortably for the rest of his life.  He wants to keep progressing and succeeding but he has reached the point where he can no longer move forward the way he has all of his life.  The second reason is to somehow get Daisy’s attention by having all of his party guests spread word of his amazing parties.  Both of these reasons show Gatsby’s confusion because he is completely in his own world.  He doesn’t need to have parties at all because he has already reached the top rung of “the ladder” and because Daisy would have probably been equally as happy with him if not more so if he had contacted her the way a normal person would have.