Jay Gatsby, the protagonist, is a social outsider because he is so incredulously unreal. His mansion, demeanour, expression and outlook all seems to suggest how bizarre the man is, making him incongruous with the social environment that he strives to be in. His absurdity is firstly symbolised by his mansion, a mishmash of styles including a “high Gothic library”, “Marie Antoinette music rooms” and “Restoration saloons”. The portrait of such bizarre, anachronistic design is a physical representation of Gatsby’s paradox of possessing excessive wealth yet having no refinement at all, making tangible the comic effect of Gatsby on his guests. Colour, reflecting one’s taste, is also widely used to highlight Gatsby’s peculiarity-Gatsby wears a “pink suit”, drives an “yellow car” and displays to Daisy his array of shirts all of gaudy colours. Such vivid, colourful imagery effectively helps us visualise the hilarious effect of a outlandishly brightly-coloured Gatsby in a society of refined, well-cultured men, reflecting how incompatible Gatsby is with the social environment. Gatsby is also characterised by Fitzgerald as being both socially awkward and artificially elaborate in demeanour-his paradoxical nature is epitomised in the oxymoron “elegant young rough-neck”, a seemingly improbable combination of words, reflecting that Gatsby is so weird that he becomes unreal. Consequently, Gatsby is seen as strange by most of the other characters. Fitzgerald’s use of hyperbole and humour is especially fitting here when Tom, who represents the Old Rich, ridicules Gatsby as a “crazy fish”, his house a “circus wagon” and his guests a “menagerie”, and Owl Eyes remarks with true surprise that Gatsby’s books “are real”. Even Nick, Gatsby’s only friend, puts it rather sarcastically that the “threadbare” covering of Gatsby fails to contain the “sawdust” that fills the hollow man’s character. Therefore, though Gatsby tried hard to be recognised by the society of established rich people, the harder he tried, he further people draw from him, dispelling him for his weirdness and incongruity.