Week 7- December 10, 2007

The last chapter is written two years after Gatsby's death, or I guess one would say murder. The press fill the area surrounding Gatsby's mansion, and outrageous rumors begin to go around about how Gatsby was murdered and his "relations" with Myrtle and Wilson. Nick attempts to give Gatsby a large funeral, but all of his friends fail to show up. I think that this shows that Gatsby didn't really have any friends. The people he knew only liked him so they could go to his parties. Tom and Daisy also move away. The only people who do show up at his funeral are Owl Eyes, some of his servants, and Gatsby's dad from Minnesota.
Nick later breaks up with Jordan and moves back to the Midwest. This disappointed me because I thought that Jordan and Nick were good together. I thought that she meant more to him than just to leave her. Why didn't he bring her with or at least offer to? Before he heads back, he meets up with Tom in New York City. Tom tells Nick that he was the one who told Wilson everything and that Gatsby deserved to die. Nick decides to himself that Tom and Daisy, both, are uncaring people who destroy other's and their things, using their own money to get out of anything they need. Nick begins to remember life in the West, and thinks that compared to the East, it is full of Christmas spirit, whereas the East is very distorted.
On the night before he moves back to Minnesota, Nick lays on the beach and looks at the sky and the moon rising. He compares the dreamers and explorers trying to find America to Gatsby searching for Daisy. He imagines America's green plains and the green light from Daisy's dock. Gatsby was living the "American dream" with all of his wealth and success, but he didn't realize that his dream was over and that his goals were nothing without Daisy. Nick thinks that people are moved by their own dreams, and pictures it as boats moving across the water; struggling.