C H A P T E R 9

1. THE GREAT GATSBY CHAPTER9 By Dylan, Jess, Chelsea, & Melanie

2. Gatsby’s Funeral • Nick decides to take care of all the details of Gatsby’s funeral. • The only people that actually show up for Gatsby's funeral is “Owl Eyes” and Nick. • People such as Wolfsheim and Klipspringer used Gatsby their whole life and didn’t even have any sense of moral to attend the funeral. “I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.”

3. Wolfshiem was the only one that showed some grievance, but still he wouldn’t go to the funeral. • Klipspringer • Wolfshiem Lack of Sympathy People Slagle “Most of those reports were a nightmare---grotesque, circumstantial, eager, and untrue.” “What I called up about was a pair of show I left there. I wonder if it’d be too much trouble to have the butler send them on.” “There was a long silence on the other end of the wire followed by an exclamation…then a quick squawk as the connection was broken.” “The hair in his nostrils quivered slightly and as he shook his head his eyes filled with tears. I can’t do it---I can’t get mixed up in it.”

4. Schedule of the Past Gatsby’s schedule is very important in that it shows the true “American” boy that Gatsby was. This thought out routine was written on a fly-leaf in Hopalong Cassidy. Also this schedule can be compared to Ben Franklin’s self-improvement plan. This schedule can be seen as a determined American who is hard-working and look for a little adventure.

5. Nick’s Dream West Egg can be compared to El Greco’s “View on Toledo”. Pg 185

6. West Egg Dream Popular artist of the late 1500s is known for his holy paintings and unusual art. The “View of Toledo” gives a view of towns people not caring they just continue to go on with their lives, and do not care about their surroundings. Nick relates West Egg to El Greco “a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lusterless moon.” In Gatsby Nick continues further on about his dream of West Egg saying that he saw “four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress.”

7. Views on Gatsby

8. Tying Up Loose Ends • Jordan • Awkward Conversation • Engaged (because she can) • Tom • Same as always • Dog Biscuits • Setting Gatsby Up

9. 1. “I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailor’s eyes---a fresh, green breast of the new world.” “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby, Daisy, and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common made us subtly inadaptable to Eastern life.” • “When a sick man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different…I stuck with them to the end…Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he alive and not after he is dead.” Quotes 2. 3. 4. “So Wilson was reduced to a man “deranged by grief” in order that he case might remain in it simplest form.”

10. CLASS DISCUSSION TIME

11. Think, Respond, Discuss Would you have attended Gatsby’s funeral? If you did go would you go out of sympathy or because you felt obligated? What are your feelings towards chapter 9? Was Tom in the right to frame Gatsby? Did your feelings affect how you felt about the book entirely?

12. Behind the Song: Dig by Incubus • “We all have a weaknessBut some of ours are easy to identify.Look me in the eye and ask for forgiveness;We'll make a pact to never speak that word againYes you are my friend.” • “Dig me up from under what is coveringThe better part of me.“ • “Remind me that we’ll always each other when everything else is gone”

13. “Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….And one fine morning----So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”