Great Gatsby
Chapter 8-9
Nick visited Gatsby for breakfast the next morning.
Gatsby told Nick that Daisy never came outside the previous night. He told Nick
about the early days of his relationship with Daisy. One night they slept
together, and he felt he had married her. Then he left for World War I. Daisy
waited for a while and then drifted away from him and into marriage with Tom
Buchanan. Gatsby and Nick finished breakfast. At work that day, Nick fell
asleep. The Jordan’s call woke him. Their conversation quickly turned unpleasant
and one of them hanged up on the other. Next, Nick related what happened at
Wilson’s garage after Myrtle’s death. Wilson spent all night talking to Greek
man about Myrtle. Then Wilson said he had a way of finding out who was driving
the car and later that morning disappeared from the garage. Later,
Nick and some of Wolfsheim’s men working at Gatsby’s house discovered Gatsby,
shot dead in his pool. Wilson’s dead body was close by lying in the grass.
The reporters and gossipmongers swarmed around Gatsby's
mansion after his death. Nick tried to give Gatsby a funeral as grand as his
parties, but found that Gatsby's enormous circle of acquaintances has suddenly
evaporated. Many, like Tom and Daisy Buchanan, had simply skipped town, while
others, including Meyer Wolfsheim and Kilpspringer, flatly refused to attend
the funeral.
Nick went to Gatsby's father, who was helpless and
distraught by the death of his son. The only other attendee at Gatsby's funeral
was Owl Eyes, the melancholy drunk who was so astonished by Gatsby's library.
Nick met with Jordan Baker. She told Nick that she and
he were both "bad drivers," and were therefore a treacherous
combination. When Nick ended their affair, she suddenly claimed to be engaged
to another man.
Months later, Nick ran into Tom Buchanan on New York's
Fifth Avenue. Tom admitted that it was he who sent Wilson to Gatsby's; He
showed no remorse, however, and said that Gatsby deserved to die.
Nick determined to return to the Midwest. Staring at
the moon on his last night in West Egg, Nick imagined a primeval America, an
America made for dreamers like Gatsby. Gatsby, for all his greatness, failed to
realize that the American Dream was already dead when he began to dream it: his
goals, the pursuit of wealth and status, had long since become empty and
meaningless.
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