Chapter 9 Pgs 143-End

Chapter 9

In this chapter Nick tries to have everything prepared for Gatsby's funeral. He tries to call everyone he knows but is unsuccessful in inviting anyone to the funeral. We also meet Gatsby's father who talks proudly about his son and how for Gatsby to be as successful as he was he had no choice but to forget about his past and create a new life. Not the kind of thing I would like to hear from my father but obviously Henry Gatz did not know everything about his son. After all that has happened Nick decides it would be best to leave and go back home after the funeral. After an argument with Jordan he knows it is best to leave what he has here. In the end Gatsby was a man that Nick respected even if he was a lie. He had everything and nothing at the same time. His dream was to finally have Daisy but since that was his only dream when he failed, his life failed.

Tom Buchanan

"What if I did tell him? He had it coming for him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did with Daisy's"

Tom doesn't necessarily have any good qualities. He's cocky and only cares about himself. We can prove this because he had a mistress throughout the whole novel and never cared about her or even his own wife. He only wanted someone he could use just like a tool. Once they didn't live up to his standard they were thrown away and another was bought.

Tom is as ignorant as he was in the beginning of the chapter. He does not have a clue of what really happened that day when Myrtle Wilson was killed. He even tries to make Nick feel bad about him losing his mistress which fails miserably. Tom could be describes as a wheel. His cycle never ends and nothing changes about him and his actions.

"He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it."

I like this quote because shows just how close Gatsby was to having Daisy and how he built himself up to a man of power but that wasn't enough to achieve his goal. It reminds us that you shouldn't think the past can occur once again in the present. Love and life aren't things you can just expect to rush back in to another's emotions. I myself have learned this "rule" and that is why I can relate to Gatsby and what he was aiming for.