Week 7- 12/12/07

This chapter starts to explain how Nick feels alone now that Gatsby is gone. He tries to phone Tom and Daisy but the person who answered at their house said they left. Gatsby's father told them to postpone the funeral until he could arrive. What about Gatsby's mother, why doesn't she come? Gatsby's father was proud of him and believed he was a great man. Klipspringer called and Nick told him about the funeral and he said he couldn't come because he had to be somewhere else, and all he called for was his tennis shoes. Why was Klipspringer acting so weird over the phone? Nick decided to go up to Mr. Wolfshiems office where a lady said he wasn't in, even though Nick knew he was and could hear him. Why was she saying he wasn't in? He finally said who he was and why he was there and then Mr. Wolfshiem came out. Then Nick went back to Gatsby's and Mr. Gatz showed him one of Gatsby's books and it showed how organized and precise Gatsby was about his day. Then the funeral was supposed to start, but they waited awhile because no one was there yet, but it was no use because no one showed up. When they went out to bury him, owl-eyes showed up and told Nick how he couldn't get to the funeral. Owl eyes finds out no one else went either and he was surprised. I was very surprised, you would think there would be alot of people there because he always had the parties and he was well known. Then he went and told Jordan something, but I'm not exactly sure what you would say he told her. It was kind of like it's over type thing. Nick runs into Tom in the city and Nick doesn't really want to talk to him because he was mad about what he did to Gatsby. We find out that Tom was the one who gave Gatsby's name to Wilson. Nick had to spend his Saturday nights in New York because he could almost hear the music and people of the parties that used to be there. The book ends and it says " So we beat on, boats against the current, bourne back ceaselessly into the past." I think this is saying that we always remember the past and want to keep going back, when in reality you can't because time is pushing us forward.

Week 6- 12/5/07

Nick and Gatsby are at Gatsby's house and they are sitting around talking about Daisy. Gatsby was reminiscing about the past and how he was sort of stuck in Oxford and Daisy didn't understand why, and she decided to move on with her life and marry Tom. Then Gatsby's gardener was going to drain his pool, but Gatsby told him to wait because he hadn't even been in it yet. Then Nick went to the city to work, fell asleep and then the phone woke him up. It was Jordan and they got into a fight. Then he tried calling Gatsby like he said he would. Then he goes back to tell us about what happened the later that night of Myrtle's death. Michaelis and Wilson sat talking and then Michaelis went home to sleep for 4 hours and when he came back Wilson was gone. He had gone to find who killed his wife. By 2:30 he was in West Egg and asked someone where Gatsby lived. Nick, the chauffeur, gardener, and the butler heard a gun shot and hurried to the pool. There lay Gatsby, surrounded by blood and leaves. When they were carrying him to the house, the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass.