In Chapter 9, we can find out what happens after the death of Jay Gatsby. Nick feels like he should get somebody to attend the funeral of his friend. Nick felt responsible because although everyone attended Jay's parties, no one wanted to come for the funeral. And Nick was obligated to make it right.
What makes Nick assume responsibility for the funeral arrangements? No one cared about Gatsby and would arrange the funeral except for him. He called daisy and many others but got either very little response or no response at all. So he took over and planned the funeral himself.
Nick is responsible for the funeral because he is the only decent human being interested in arranging it. When Nick finds out that Gatsby has been killed, he is the only one who goes to see him.
Sick of the East and its empty values, Nick decides to move back to the Midwest. He breaks off his relationship with Jordan, who suddenly claims that she has become engaged to another man.
Nick tries to find anyone at all to come to Gatsby's funeral, but fails. Not even Wolfshiem will come. Daisy and Tom have left town for good, with no forwarding address.
Nick felt responsible because although everyone attended Jay's parties, no one wanted to come for the funeral. And Nick was obligated to make it right. He was the only real and loyal friend that Gatsby had. Nick was the only one who didn't care about his great fortune.
Why does Nick feel he is responsible for taking care of the situation? Nick feels like he is the only one who really knew Gatsby, plus no one else is willing to organize a funeral. What is the father's perception of his son and his son's life? Gatsby's father is proud of his son.
Gatsby's funeral is ironic because only three people attend, while enormous crowds attended his parties. Despite being a popular figure in the social scene, once Gatsby passes, neither Daisy, his business partner Henry Wolfsheim, nor any of his partygoers seem to remember him or care.
But here's what we think is going on: Nick realizes that chasing a future dream just ends up miring us in the past. All of our dreams are based on visions of our past self, like Gatsby who in the past believed that he would end up with Daisy and who believed in the American myth of the self-made man.
On the night of the funeral, he performed in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. Despite his work obligations, there were reports that Nick believed his family tried to keep him away from the services by not informing him about the arrangements.
Nick goes back to Gatsby's for the funeral, with only himself, Henry Gatz, and—to his amazement—Owl Eyes in attendance.
Nick is left to organise Gatsby's funeral. Daisy and Tom have left town. Wolfshiem refuses to come. Hundreds of people attended Gatsby's parties but no-one comes to his funeral apart from Nick, Gatsby's father, and some servants.
Why couldn't Nick get anyone to come to Gatsby's funeral? -He had no real friends, no one wanted to be involved with his death.
What does Nick discover when he tries to tell Daisy that Gatsby has been killed? Daisy and Tom have gone away, leaving no forwarding address.
It was ironic that No one came to his funeral either, despite all the hundreds of people that came to his parties. What happened to Tom and Daisy after the death of Gatsby? They left town and never came to the funeral and could not be reached.
The Last Line of The Great Gatsby. The last sentence of this novel is consistently ranked in the lists of best last lines that magazines like to put together. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. So what makes this sentence so great?
Michaelis, a Greek man who runs the restaurant next to Wilson's garage, tells them that Myrtle was the victim—a car coming from New York City struck her, paused, then sped away. Nick realizes that Myrtle must have been hit by Gatsby and Daisy, driving back from the city in Gatsby's big yellow automobile.
Nicks Final message to the reader is that society is composed of Boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." What business does Nick Carraway go into and why?
Daisy does not want to be seen attending Gatsby's funeral because she does care about her reputation, despite the fact that she has never loved Tom. As a result, she makes the decision to abstain out of concern that she will damage both her connection with Tom and her standing in the eyes of the general public.
At this point, you must understand that Gatsby's funeral had a symbolic meaning. So few people attending showed that only a few truly knew the man that Gatsby really was. The rest just saw him as a rich man and used him for his wealth. In a way, it was also a representation of society during the Roaring Twenties.
Tom knew that the car that ran Myrtle over was Gatsby's, but he was not Myrtle's love. By giving the false information to George, yet Tom knew he was Myrtle's lover, he directly causes Gatsby's death (Gale, 2019).
Nick is particularly taken with Gatsby and considers him a great figure. He sees both the extraordinary quality of hope that Gatsby possesses and his idealistic dream of loving Daisy in a perfect world.
What makes Nick assume responsibility for the funeral arrangements? Specify the things he did. Nick assumed responsibility because no one else came forward to. Nick tries to get the people he knows Gatsby interacted with to come to the funeral but no one does.
The only people who came to pay their respects were Nick, Gatsby's father, Owl Eyes, and a few servants. Even Daisy, Gatsby's beloved, did not attend the funeral, which shows the superficial nature of their relationship.
Daisy, who claimed to love Gatsby, disappeared, and the few friends Gatsby had, such as Wolfsheim and Klipspringer, refused to come to the funeral. In the end, only Gatsby's father, Nick, Owl-Eyes, a few servants, and a postman came to the funeral.