Sunday, October 3, 2010
Gatsby's Death
Nobody actually realizes Gatsby is dead. Nick, being the person solely in charge of setting up Gatsby's funeral, on several occasions has conversations or thoughts involving Gatsby as though he were alive. (Pg 146) "I wanted to go into the room wehre he lay and reassure him:"I'll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don't worry. Just trust me and I'll get somebody for you---"" This is not an interaction that is normal to be having with a dead person. When Nick goes to meet Wolfsheim, Wolfsheim says that he would normally stick by his friends till the very end but for some unexplained reason he cannot attend Gatsby's funeral. There is even one person who was away during the murder, and came over to Gatsby's thinking there would be a party as usual. (Pg. 179) "One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn't investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over." Every main character leaves after this, could Gatsby be metaphorically holding a party that is their lives in the Eggs? When he dies, does everyone simply go home after the party?
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