2. Chapter nine starts with Nick describing how the rest of the day went after he heard the shots. The police were everywhere and they were standing over Wilson’s body. Michaelis talked about how George has suspicions about his wife. Myrtle’s sister, Catherine, doesn’t say anything about the affair but swears that her sister had never seen Gatsby and that she was completely happy with her husband. Nick tries to call Tom and Daisy but he was told that they were no longer there, that they had left early that afternoon and did not leave an address. Nick wanted to get someone for Gatsby, someone to be with him. He calls Wolfsheim but it was too late in the afternoon and nobody was picking up. Nick sends a butler with a letter to Wolfsheim asking him to come and be with Gatsby. He replies that he is sorry for what happened with Gatsby but that he can’t be seen being involved with this kind of thing. Henry C. Gatz comes to Gatsby’s and tells Nick that he is James’ father and asked Nick to take him to his son. Klipspringer calls and Nick hopes that he is coming to the funeral but all he wanted was to ask Nick to find a pair of shoes he left at Gatsby’s and return them to him. Henry Gatz talks to Nick about Gatsby and how proud of his son he was and that he thought his son was destined to be a great man. No one showed up for Gatsby’s funeral and it makes Nick really mad. Nick decides he wants to go back home. Jordan calls and tells him she is engaged but he doesn’t believe that. Nick runs into Tom and wont shake his hand because he hates Tom and he even tells Tom that. He then asks what Tom told Wilson that night to make him come and kill Gatsby. Tom says he told him the truth that Gatsby was the one who killed Myrtle. Tom says that he has had his share of suffering that when he went to the apartment he got for him and myrtle and saw the dog biscuits he started crying like a baby. Nick says that he could never forgive Tom or like him but that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. The book ends with Nick looking at Gatsby’s empty house and passing by.
3. a. Nick Carraway
b. I wanted to get somebody for him. I wanted to go into the room where he lay and reassure him: “I’ll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don’t worry. Just trust me and I’ll get somebody for you-“ (Fitzgerald 164)
c. Nick’s best quality it suppose to be that he doesn’t judge people and that he tells the truth. But at the end of chapter eight we find out that he does life because in chapter one he says that Gatsby ends up just fine it then end but that is not true because Gatsby dies. Also one of his great qualities is that he stays by Gatsby’s side through all of this. He is pretty much rooting for him and Daisy to get together. And when Gatsby dies, Nick goes out of his way to get someone to be there for Gatsby, he tries so hard. He stays with Gatsby and goes to his funeral and gets so upset when people say they aren’t going to Gatsby’s funeral. Nick is truly a great friend.
d. Nick’s main purpose in this book is to be the story teller. He tells us what is going on and other then that one lie, he never lies to us, that we can tell. He also is what brings Daisy and Gatsby together after all those years. It was at his house that Daisy and Gatsby met for the first time in five years.
4. The minister glanced several times, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came.
I thought this was extremely important because Gatsby was built up to be this magnificent person that everyone wanted to be friends with and he was. He threw parties every weekend and thousands of people came to his parties and rode in his cars and Kilpspringer even lived in his house, all these people just took and took from him but none of them could be bothered to go to his funeral. Even though Nick didn’t put the funeral in the papers, owl eyes found out and was the only one who came. If he knew then lots of other people knew too. No one went to his funeral, this guy who always had people around him but none of them went. Wolfsheim was suppose to be his closest friend but he didn’t show. Jordan and Gatsby became close when he found out that she knew Daisy. Daisy didn’t come, she was supposed to love this man but she didn’t come to his funeral. The only person Gatsby truly had at the end was Nick.
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