The Great Gatsby Ch. 9

The attendance of Gatsby’s funeral is less then impressive. There is only Nick, his dad and the limousine driver, and then Owl Eyes shows up a few minutes later. Nick and his father are there because they deeply feel for his loss and were close in Gatsby’s life, the driver is there because he has to be and Owl Eyes is there because he feels the need to give his respects to him. Although Gatsby seemed to be a very popular man, the friends he thought he had never came to his funeral. Meyer Wolfsheim tells Nick that he has too much business and can’t attend for he doesn’t want to get wrapped up in that sort of thing and he never hears a word from Daisy. This drastic scene is showing us that even though Gatsby threw the wildest parties and people surrounded him doesn’t mean that he has a lot of friends or any one can for that matter. Although Gatsby was to involved in his work and never really took the time to enjoy his wealth, he flashed it and lived how he thought a young rich bachelor should. It shows us that even though Gatsby was sort of living “the American Dream” and living with all that money, that you aren’t automatically happy and there aren’t going to have all the friends in the world. The luxury that James Gatz saw when he was a young man was the thing that blinded ho for the rest of his life because he did everything just to become rich and impress Daisy.