The Great Gatsby Chapter 9

1. The Great Gatsby: Chapter 9(pg 163-180)

2. It is two years now since Gatsby's death and Nick writes what happened since the day Gatsby died and Nick recalls of all the police, reporters, and rumors that went with Gatsby. Nick learns Daisy and Tom had moved without word and Wolfsheim and Klipspringer both replied they could not go to the funeral. Gatsby's father, Henry C. Gatz, had arrived from Minnesota for Gatsby's funeral and felt pride by the accomplishments of his son. Nick learns from Wolfsheim that he brought Gatsby up from being poor. Gatsby's funeral consisted of Nick, Mr. Gatz, a minister, and several servants until owl-eyes showed up. Nick meets Jordan and they decide to break their relationship and Nick meets Tom where Tom tells Nick that he told George who owned the car, Gatsby deserved it, and he suffered also when he gave up the flat. Nick goes back to the last day before he left West Egg and describes his time at the beach and wondered how Gatsby felt when he first saw the green light of Daisy's dock and how it showed he was close to his dream.

3. Henry C. Gatz

" It was Gatsby's father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day." (Gatsby 167)

Qualities:

" His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat." (Gatsby 167)

" His eyes, seeing nothing, moved ceaselessly about the room." (Gatsby 167)

" After a little while Mr. Gatz opened the door and came out, his mouth ajar, his face flushed slightly, his eyes leaking isolated and unpunctual tears." (Gatsby 168)

" He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor of the hall and the great rooms opening out from it into other rooms, his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride." (Gatsby 168)

" He pointed out every detail to me eagerly. 'Look there!' and then sought admiration from my eyes. He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself." (Gatsby 172)

" He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it." (Gatsby 173)

Earlier in the novel, Gatsby had told Nick that his parents are dead and there was no point in looking further into his past. Later on in chapter 6, Nick first tells of Gatsby's real past as being from North Dakota. Gatsby had the imagination to change his name and join with Dan Cody and also by leaving his own family. Now appears Henry C. Gatz, the real father of Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatz kept saying that he knew that Gatsby had more potential to become as great as James J. Hill and could have helped build the country.

4. " I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter. I saw right away he was a fine-appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was an Oggsford I knew I could use him good." (Gatsby 171)

This quote stood out for me because Wolfsheim was first mentioned in Chapter 4 and he was believed to be part of the reason to the source of Gatsby's wealth. Gatsby would have become rich from the inheritance of Dan Cody  if it had not been for Ella Kaye who took the money legally. Wolfsheim further confirms the social class of Gatsby when he says that Gatsby had nothing and came from the "gutter" and that Wolfsheim is the reason to Gatsby's wealth. Gatsby will be remembered in the same way as Rosy Rosenthal who was also friends with Wolfsheim.