He then tries to find family members for Gatsby or for someone to pay their respects but he finds no one.
Nick gets a call - intended for Gatsby - find out he was involved in something suspicious
Gatsby's father than turns up - father is very proud (doesn't know about the dodgey business Gatsby got all his money from)
A guy phones up knowing that Gatsby is dead asking for a pair of shoes - nick rightly hangs up on him.
we learn how Gatsby was always trying to improve himself - idea that he was always wanting to do well for himself.
Weather - day of the family - rainy days
at the funeral - owl eyes turns up. (agrees with Nick about how terrible it is that tons of people go to Gatsby's party but none to his funeral)
he concludes that all of the characters in the book were all from the West and therefore could not conform to the ways of the East.
- Nick decided to go home to the East.
Before the end he meets Jordon who accuses him of being "dishonest" after all.
Nick’s cryptic response? "I’m thirty. I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it Honor." He then remarks that he’s "half in love with her" and "tremendously sorry" when he leaves.
Some time later he runs into Tom Buchanan.
Tom reveals that he is the one who told Mr. Wilson that the car belonged to Gatsby.
Nick can’t bring himself to utter the truth – that Daisy was the one driving. He doesn’t even know anymore whom to believe.
- Nick realises that Tom and Daisy were "careless people," people who made messes and then left others to clean them up.
What do you make of these points that you raise? Storytelling methods? You've made good comments on the whole novel. Now think about how to propose an argument about what you think the novel's about.
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