Chapter+9

__Summary: __ Nick makes arrangements for Gatsby's funeral. Daisy and Tom have moved away. Nick invites many people to his funeral, but everybody seems too busy to attend. For instance, Wolfshiem, his business partner, pretends he is out of town when really, he is avoiding the funeral. Gatsby is buried, and Nick, Gatsby's father, and the drunken man are the only three who show up. Nick moves back West. He sees Tom around town, and Tom admits to turning in Gatsby. __Unfamiliar Vocabulary Terms: __ ﻿1. __reverent__- feeling of deep respect 2. __vestibules__- passages between the in/out of a building 3. __provincial__- belonging to a particular province (style) __Time Period: __ This Chapter speaks of the differences between the East and the West. He thought about Long Island being discovered: "I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes-a fresh, green breast of the new world" (Fitzgerald 189). During the 1920s, people searched for new opportunities and the American Dream much like the discoverers of America. __Relation to Fitzgerald's Life: __ On Fitzgerald's 40th birthday, he was depicted in a newspaper as a "has-been." This is similar to how Gatsby dies and nobody cares for him. All of his status and glory is lost. Also, not many people attended Fitzgerald's funeral.

__﻿Common Themes: __
===Selfishness, tragedy and ultimately lost innocence are the three similar themes which wrap up the novel. All but three of the remaining characters prove to be shallow and selfish, coming to all of Gatsby's parties but not caring enough about him to show up at his funeral. Gatsby, always the beacon of hope in the novel, dies alone and unloved by the object of his affection. Tom and Daisy go back West and live their lives of opulence and shallow joys, scarcely giving Jay another thought once he's out of their lives. Only one member of the parties, an owl-eyed man who the reader met drunk, attends the funeral and shows grief over Jay's death. It's a tragic ending fitting the general sense of melancholy which permeates the book. ===

__Marxist View: __
===The end of the book shows how destructive people can be. They don't truly care for one another, such as no one attending Gatsby's funeral although they acted as his friends. Gatsby's wealth which began to win back Daisy caused his death. ===

__Feminist View: __
===Men still have control over women. Tom takes Daisy away for good even though he said he would never leave New York. Now that Tom doesn't have his mistress, he has to keep total control over Daisy and not let her leave him for Gatsby. ===

<span style="color: #055913; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">__﻿Colors as Symbols:__
===**<span style="color: #076707; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Green is the color of Daisy and Tom's dock light that Gatsby can see from his house. In the novel, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter-to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.....And one fine morning". (Fitzgerald 180) The green light represents the future that Gatsby looked forward to. That future that he looks forward to is out of his reach, and someday he knows he will get to it. He loves Daisy so the fact that the green light is on her dock means that someday he wants to be with her. **===

<span style="color: #9412ed; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Sources:**
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