Funeral

The number of people in attendance to Gatsby's funeral was ridiculous. For a couple years , he had been opening his home every weekend to all of these strangers. They had been mooching off of him, trashing his house, and using his house as a hang out, even though they did not know Gatsby personally. The only people to show up to his funeral were Nick, his father, a few servants, and the Owl-eyed guy from the library. Nick came because he was a very close friend to Gatsby, and he wanted to be there to support his friend. His father came, because it was his son that died, and he was very proud of what his son had done with himself. He always carried around the picture of his house that Mr. Gatsby had sent him, showing it off to anyone he could. The servants went because they spent alot of time with Gatsby, and there was probably a since of having to go not as much wanting to go for them. As for the Owl-eyed guy, he was the only one of the mooches that showed up to the funeral. He didn't have an special bond with Gatsby, and didn't go to that many parties, so the only reason to be said of him coming is he is a genuinely kind guy, who has enough respect for other people to go to the Funeral. This just shows that people didn't care about Gatsby at all, and just used him for what he owned and his materialistic values. This was very disrespectful to Gatsby. As for Daisy, there were probably a number of reason she didnt go to the funeral, and none of them would giver her a good enough excuse. Gatsby ended up taking all of the heat for this girl, and the least she could do was show up at his Funeral to honor and celebrate the life of the guy she loves. Tom, most likely, had some sort of leash on her after the instance in New York, but she could have at least sent a flower or called Nick.

Climax

There are a few things that happened through out the book that might have to us what might be coming next. The glasses that watched over the Wilson's garage and the city of ash is one piece in the book that might have been a good hint to us that something was going to happen. Wilson claimed that these glasses watched over him like God. When Wilson started putting the pieces together about Myrtle and her fooling around with someone, he claimed the glasses, or God, helped him. Him having suspicions about Myrtle is what started their argument for the most part, and if that didn't happen, and God had not been looking out for Wilson, than Myrtle wouldn't have ran out in front of the car. Also, another hint in the book is when Tom goes to the Wilson's garage to get gas before they have their adventure to the city. When they are pulling out of the station, someone makes an observation of the look of multiple emotions on Myrtle's face as she sees Jordan, whom she assumes is Daisy. This is the first time she has seen his "wife," and the look on her face showed she did not take it well. The last main thing that foreshadowed an event like this to happen was when they went into such detail about the yellow car. At some point in the book, you knew something was going to happen relating to Gatsby's yellow car.

Lies

People tell lies for many reasons. Gatsby's reason was he was a nobody that always dreamed of being a somebody. Ever since he was little he was ashamed of his parents and of the life he had, so when he left them, he had to leave the name that tied him to them behind also. he had all of these dreams of these wonderful things that he wanted, and being only the son of a farmer would not help him reach these goals. Now that he achieved these goals, he felt like he had to continue to lie. No one needed to know that he was once a nobody, and isn't actually a part on an influential family. Also, his lies really set him up for a good story, and make his name, Gatsby, sound like he is a somebody. Jay Gatsby would tell people he, as well as most of the people in his family, went to Oxford, which helped give him a sort of status. If he started telling the truth about himself, than his status would be lowered to some of the people that knew him, and in the end maybe if Daisy found out about him through hearsay, her thoughts about him would be lowered also. Nick lied to us because of the same reason. Gatsby has this wonderful feel about him, with all of his money and "things" he owns, and added with the fact that there is something very suspicious about him, it makes you always want to find out what is really behind Gatsby, where did he really come from? He decides to tell us later because we needed to have this understanding of Gatsby and get this idea of him in our head. Also, now that Gatsby found what he was looking for all of these years, he doesn't have all of the same need to put on such a front. Nick realizes this and decides to fill us in on the secret.

Enchanted Objects

For around the past 5 years, Gatsby has been on a search for a way to get back in touch with Daisy. Ever since he found out where she lived and found something to notice her house, the green light, it has been one of his greatest possessions because it was the closest thing he had to his greatly missed Daisy. This flashing light was something he could always look at and picture Daisy and know that on the other side of the water, she was sitting there at her house, closer to him than she has been in a long time. Once Daisy went to Nick's cottage for tea, and the doors opened for the two of them to have a talking relationship again, his need for this flashing light started getting smaller. As the day went on, and he started to realize they might be able to talk once and a while,like old times sake, he didn't need the light. It wasn't an enchanted object to him anymore that linked him to his past and connected him some how to this young lady he so greatly missed.

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