Chapter 9 After Gatsbys Death

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Chapter 9 --After Gatsbys Death

• By Caitlin and Ferris
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---For Gatsbys Funeral

• The books final chapter begins with the police
  and the photographers and newspaper men storming
  Gatsbys house.
• Nick becomes worried that he is handling Gatsbys
  burial arrangements, believing there must be
  someone closer to Gatsby who should be conducting
  the business at hand.
• So Nick makes arrangements for his burial and try
  to get his so called friends come to his funeral.

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---For Gatsbys Funeral

• Results all the people who so eagerly attended
  his parties, drinking his liquor and eating his
  food, refuse to become involved.
• Daisy and Tom are mysteriously leaving on a trip.
• Meyer Wolfshiem, Gatsbys business partner,
  refuses twice to publicly mourn his friends
  death, claiming I cant get mixed up in it.

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---For Gatsbys Funeral

• Slagle does not know Gatsbys death, saying that
  Young Parke is in trouble and asking Gatsby for
  dropping bond business.
• Klipspringer called up to inquire about a pair of
  his tennis shoes, saying he would rather stay
  with some friends in Greenwich than attend the
  funeral.

5
---For Gatsbys Funeral

• Henry C. Gatz, Gatsbys father, indicates he will
  be coming from Minnesota to bury his son, and
  indeed came a few days later.
• Henry Gatz is proud of his son and saves a
  picture of his house. He also fills Nick in on
  Gatsbys early life, showing him a book in which
  a young Gatsby had written a schedule for
  self-improvement.

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---On Gatsbys Funeral

• On Gatsbys funeral only Nick, Henry Gatz, a few
  servants, the postman, and the minister at the
  graveside.
• Then, a man with owl-eyes appeared at the
  cemetery, saying Gatsby the poor son-of-a-birch.

7
---Nick prepares to back home.

• Nick, completely disillusioned with what he has
  experienced in the East, prepares to head back to
  the Midwest.
• Before leaving, Nick interacts with two people
  from his past.
• First, he speaks with Jordan and, although he
  still feels fondly toward her, he once again
  coolly leaves her.

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---Nick prepares to back home.

• Finally, one autumn day, Nick meets Tom along
  Fifth Avenue. Tom, seeing Nick, makes the first
  move to speak. Initially Nick refuses to shake
  Toms hand, upset with what Tom has come to
  represent. In the course of their short
  discussion, Nick learns Tom had a role in
  Gatsbys deathGeorge Wilson worked his way to
  the Buchannan house in East Egg and Tom told him
  who owned the car that struck Myrtle. When Nick
  leaves, he shakes Toms hand because he felt
  suddenly as though he were talking to a child.

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---Nicks last visit

• On the last night before leaving, Nick goes to
  Gatsbys mansion, then to the shore where Gatsby
  once stood, arms outstretched toward the green
  light.
• Strolling down to the water he is called to
  remember the way Gatsbys house used to be,
  filled with people and lavish parties. He
  considers Gatsbys wonder at picking out Daisys
  dock in the darkness, how far Gatsby had traveled
  in his life, and how he always had hope in the
  future. In his final thought, Nick links society
  to the boats eternally moving against the current
  on the Sound.    

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Caitlin and Ferris

• Thanks you all!