? The Great Gatsby: Analysis of Chapter 9 Nick Carraway, Klipspringer, Owl-Eyes, Mr. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ( The Great Gatsby, chapter 9) ? Active Characters He imagines how many people are chasing the American Dream and overcoming obstacles, just like boats struggling to move against water flow. Picturing this land as the New World, he wonders how it was for the first explorers to see America’s “green breast.” Nick compares them to Gatsby, who was looking at the green light of Daisy’s dock across the bay. He walks down to the beach and looks over Long Island. The novel ends with Nick recalling his last visit to Gatsby’s mansion. However, he realizes that it is the story about the West since all the main characters are Westerners lacking some trait, which makes them “subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” In comparison, it is clear that the East seems ugly and distorted. Nick recalls living in the Midwest again as having cozy winter holidays such as Christmas. He got used to the fast pace of life there. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” ( The Great Gatsby, chapter 9)Įars after, Nick notices how all the people from the East he encountered affected his own identity and behavior. They believe that money fixes everything. Nick understands that the Buchanans are arrogant and carelessly rich. The only thing that disappoints him is the loss of his mistress and the New York apartment he kept for the affair. Moreover, he is glad Gatsby is dead since he deserved it. Tom says that it was he who told Wilson where to look for Myrtle’s murderer. They argue, and Nick storms out, feeling angry.īefore he moves out, Nick comes across Tom, the discussion of Gatsby with whom is rather unpleasant. At their final meeting, it appears she is suddenly engaged to someone else. Nick decides to move away from the destructive immorality of the East and returns to the Midwest. He’d of helped build up the country.” ( The Great Gatsby, chapter 9) He was only a young man but he had a lot of brain power here… If he’d of lived he’d of been a great man. “He had a big future before him, you know. He shows a journal that little Jay was keeping for self-motivation and improvement. Gatz even tells Nick about Gatsby’s childhood. He is shocked to see all that enormous mansion of Jay’s, but he feels incredibly proud of his son. He is wearing very cheap and old clothes, and his hands are trembling from grief.
The latter has traveled a long way from Minnesota. There are Nick, Owl-Eyes, several workers, and Gatsby’s father, Henry C. The list of people attending the funeral is relatively short. Klipspringer claims he is busy, but he asks to send his tennis shoes left in Gatsby’s mansion. Meyer Wolfsheim answers that he has some business to attend to. Tom and Daisy moved out of East Egg and didn’t leave the forwarding address. Nick wants people to come to Gatsby’s funeral, but everyone who knew him has vanished. He feels responsible for organizing the funeral because it appears that no one else will. Nick is the only one who is on Gatsby’s side. Much worse than before, surreal stories are covering Gatsby’s relationship with the Wilsons. Crowds of journalists invaded the mansion after the murder. Daisy's husband, Tom, directs him to Gatsby's house, where he shoots and kills Gatsby, and then himself, thus resolving Daisy's affair.It’s been two years after Gatsby’s death, and Nick recalls the events surrounding the funeral. Myrtle's husband is despondent and tries to find his wife's killer. She is unaware that she has killed her husband's mistress and leaves the scene of the crime. Daisy's husband, Tom, is carrying on an affair with a garage owner's wife a woman named Myrtle Wilson.ĭriving home from New York, Daisy strikes and kills Myrtle while driving Gatsby's car. He throws lavish parties and eventually meets and begins an affair with his beloved Daisy. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is involved in illegal activities, including bootlegging, or selling liquor during prohibition, when liquor sales are illegal in the United States. He meets an eccentric, exceptionally wealthy neighbor named Jay Gatsby, and becomes embroiled in Gatsby's plan to rekindle a lost love with a woman named Daisy Buchanan, who happens to be Nick's cousin. The narrator, Nick Carraway, is an upper class American man who moves from the West to New York to try his luck as a bond trader.
Scott Fitzgerald and published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is set during the Roaring Twenties, in 1922 and tells the story of one man's pursuit of the American Dream.