Funeral of Gatsby

Chapter 9 is Gatsby's Funeral. In this chapter we learn that the wealth only care about themselves. All of the wealthy people who had been at Gatsby's parties dont even attend his funeral. The people in east were just so morally corrupted. This is so shocking to Nick that he moves back to West Egg. The corruption of morals is not only a main theme in this chapter but the whole book. Nick judged all of the characters in the book and he felt like the wealthy people were morally corrupt. Daisy was morally corrupt, she was very close to Gatsby, and she didn't even recognize that he died, she didn't pay any kind of services. The wealthy people in this novel seems to have their priorities very mixed up. "Daisy hadn't sent a message or flowers" (183) "About 5 o clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle besides the gate" (182) These two quotes show that they really dont care much about Gatsby

Gatsby Shot!

In chapter 8 we learn the surprising death of Gatsby. Gatsby is shot to death by Wilson, who though Gatsby had an affair with Myrtle (his wife) and then killed her. Wilson thinks this because he had seen Gatsby fill his yellow car with gas prior to death of Myrtle. I almost expected Gatsby to die, however not like this. Gatsby was always a mysterious person. I wouldn't even be surprised if he had a few dead bodies somewhere in his mansion. I also think that people may have been jealous of him, he had everything, wealth, girls, social life. "It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete" (162) This quote represents the body of Wilson, after he shot himself. Seems like Wilson was extremely depressed over the death of his wife and was out to seek revenge. He was even willing to cross the line by killing himself. Myrtle must have met everything to Wilson. What a surprising way to end the chapter, and life of Gatsby.

Gatsby vs Tom

Seems like there was a lot of argument between the two during the final chapters. Tom goes off on Gatsby and mocks his habit of calling people "old sports", and accuses that he lied about going to Oxford. He then accuses him of running a bootleg operation, and sends Gatsby home, knowing he just beat him. I think that Tom was very mad at Gatsby for trying to steal his wife from him, as well as Gatsby always acting suspicious around him. After all of this Daisy admits that she is in love with Tom and not Gatsby. Gatsby realizes that he just waisted all of those years trying to pursue Daisy. I feel very bad for Gatsby because he had just spent all of those years trying to go after the women he loved, and he tried to gain wealth and move up on the social ladder just to try and impress Daisy. Gatsby can now live a normal life, a life he has probably been wanting to live for years. Without Daisy to impress, I assume that Gatsby wont throw anymore parties. Gatsby has a very lonely live ahead of him.