In The Great Gatsby, how is Jordan's remark about large parties quoted below an example of paradox?"And I like large parties. They're so intimate....

A paradox is an apparent contradiction which turns out to
be true. For example, the Bible says in order to be a king one must become a servant,
and in order to become rich one must first be poor. Both of these statements appear to
be contradictions; however, they are truthful in their meaning, if not in their form. In
this quote from The Great Gatsby, Jordan uses a paradox to comment
on how much unexpected privacy there is in a large gathering--because one can easily get
lost in a crowd, deliberately or not, and no one would notice--thus the intimacy.  In a
small, more traditionally intimate gathering, everyone notices everyone, and all actions
are inevitably scrutinized--or at least noticed.  No privacy.  She's right, of course,
but her words don't seem to be true, logically:

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"And I like large parties. They're so intimate.
At small parties there isn't any
privacy."

We typically think
of small parties as being intimate and large parties as being personal.  This kind of
reversal is what makes a paradox work.