After Gatsby's death, Nick arranges a sparsely attended funeral, becomes disgusted with the moral emptiness and carelessness of the East (especially Tom, Daisy, and Jordan), and decides to move back to the Midwest, realizing the corrupting nature of the wealthy society he'd encountered, ending the novel with a reflection on the past and the illusion of the American Dream.
A while after the funeral, Nick saw Tom. Tom said that he told Wilson, the man who killed Gatsby, that it was Gatsby's car that hit Wilson's wife, Myrtle. Nick did not like living in the East anymore, and he decided to leave the city and move back west.
After Gatsby's funeral, Nick and Jordan meet for the last time because Nick wants to break things off with Jordan and discuss closure about their relationship. Jordan informs him that she got engaged after they broke up, showing that she never really loved him.
At the end of the novel, Nick ultimately returns to the Midwest after despairing of the decadence and indifference of the East. Scholar Thomas Hanzo posits that Carraway must return "to the comparatively rigid morality of his ancestral West and to its embodiment in the manners of Western society.
Three days after the murder of Gatsby, a telegram from his father, 'signed Henry C. Gatz' arrives and, a few days later, Mr. Gatz arrives at the mansion.
The Great Gatsby isn't explicitly LGBTQ+, but it's frequently read through a queer theory lens, particularly focusing on narrator Nick Carraway's complex feelings for Gatsby, suggesting homoerotic undertones, closeted sexuality, and intense, possibly romantic, longing that transcends typical friendship in a repressive era. While F. Scott Fitzgerald never confirmed Nick as gay, interpretations point to Nick's detailed descriptions of men, his avoidance of intimacy with women like Jordan, and his fascination with Gatsby as hints of his hidden sexuality.
Mansell Pattison's network schema suggests that Gatsby was a seriously deranged individual, in the range of a Skid Row alcoholic, an institutionalized psychotic, or a disabled borderline, whose efforts at resolution had run their course (1, 2).
He catches up with Gatsby in the pool outside his home and shoots him dead, before killing himself. Nick is left to organise Gatsby's funeral. Daisy and Tom have left town. Wolfshiem refuses to come.
Since Gatsby isn't “old money” he lives on the slightly less fashionable West egg because he is not as sophisticated as East eggers like Tom and Daisy. Since Gatsby hasn't been wealthy his whole life, and he had to work to get his money, he doesn't have much power compared to Tom.
Finally, that closing line: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Fitzgerald compares our struggle to reach the American Dream and create a future that matches our vision of the future to a boat moving against the current.
Gatsby's funeral is ironic because only three people attend, while enormous crowds attended his parties.
Perhaps Jordan hears about Gatsby's death but avoids his funeral because she assumes Nick will be there.
What does Nick realize about his role after Gatsby's death? Nick is Gatsby's only true friend, so it is his responsibility to manage Gatsby's affairs because he is the only person who cares.
Nick ends up breaking off their engagement, calling Jordan heartless in how she dealt with Myrtle's death, and Jordan ends up skipping the funeral once Gatsby dies, and she returns to attending parties alone.
Her decision to remain with Tom, despite her feelings for Gatsby, is ascribable to the status and security that her marriage provides.
The only people to attend the funeral are Nick, Owl Eyes, a few servants, and Gatsby's father, Henry C. Gatz, who has come all the way from Minnesota. Henry Gatz is proud of his son and saves a picture of his house.
Realizing that Gatsby is not made of old money and has illegally acquired his wealth, Daisy begins to lose interest in Gatsby and remains loyal to Tom. Tom orders Daisy to return home with Gatsby, confident that Gatsby cannot do anything to take Daisy away from him.
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Dan Cody earned his wealth after numerous successful investments in mining throughout the late 1800s. He became a multi-millionaire after a particularly lucrative yield from a Montana copper claim.
Tom realises that it was Gatsby's car that struck and killed Myrtle. Back at Daisy and Tom's home, Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was driving the car that killed Myrtle but he will take the blame.
Yet Daisy isn't just a shallow gold digger. She's more tragic: a loving woman who has been corrupted by greed. She chooses the comfort and security of money over real love, but she does so knowingly.
Tom Buchanan is the main antagonist in The Great Gatsby . An aggressive and physically imposing man, Tom represents the biggest obstacle standing between Gatsby and Daisy's reunion. For much of the novel Tom exists only as an idea in Gatsby's mind.
It was quite negative and derogatory during the time of the story, commonly referred to as the Roaring Twenties. F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates aspects of homosexuality in The Great Gatsby through the narrator, Nick Carraway, and his interactions with other male characters throughout the novel.
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Daisy, for example, struggles with food-related obsessive compulsive disorder and addiction that doesn't seem to have a root cause early on in the movie.