By Dylan, Jess, Chelsea, & Melanie T H E G R E A T G A T S B Y

Nick’s Preparations for Funeral Gatsby’s Schedule Wolfshiem & Mr. Gatz Careless People Nick’s West Egg Dream Gatsby’s American Dream Accomplished?

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.”

Rise from bed6.00A.M Dumbbell exercise & wall-scaling “ Study electricity, etc “ Work P.M Baseball & sports “ Practice elocution, poise, and how to attain it “ Study needed inventions “ 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.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.

Mr. Gatz Wolfshiem Views on Gatsby Gatsby’s True FatherGatsby’s “Teacher” Only knew his son as a childKnew Gatsby after war Was proud of Gatsby’s Fortune Believed his was the reason for all that Gatsby is Attended his funeralDid not want to attend funeral Views his son almost like an idol, and treasures everything he has ever done. He made Gatsby into the wealthy man that he was. Believes that Gatsby ran away because he knew he had a bright future. Believes that w/out him Gatsby would have been nothing

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

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.” 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. 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.”

“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. “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.” “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. “the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams;”

What are your feelings towards chapter 9? Did your feelings affect how you felt about the book entirely? Would you have attended Gatsby’s funeral? If you did go would you go out of sympathy or because you felt obligated?