Summary
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Gatsby's funeral
This final chapter is written by Nick two years after the event of Gatsby's death. Nick finds himself “on Gatsby’s side, and alone” (164) so he attempts to call up some of Gatsby's old friends for his funeral, but they all seem unwilling to come. At the funeral, the only people who attend are Nick, Gatsby's father, Owl-Eyes, the postman, and some of Gatsby's servants. Nick attempts to call Daisy, but she and Tom have left town. Nick finalizes his relationship with Jordan Baker and he bumps into Tom Buchanan, whom he describes as a pathetic man. Nick realizes that the morals in the East are corrupted, so he decides to return back to the Midwest. The rest of the novel is when Nick reflects back to the past summer and concludes that dreams are like a sailboat against a current, “borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (180)