Hundreds of people eagerly indulged in Gatsby's parties and wealth, but they can't be bothered to come to his funeral. Even those who seemed to know Gatsby fairly well, like Klipspringer and Wolfsheim, won't come to honor him. Klipspringer is more concerned about his tennis shoes than with Gatsby's death.
Wilson shoots Gatsby, killing him instantly, then shoots himself. Nick hurries back to West Egg and finds Gatsby floating dead in his pool. Nick imagines Gatsby's final thoughts, and pictures him disillusioned by the meaninglessness and emptiness of life without Daisy, without his dream.
An incredibly intuitive yet drunk man, Owl Eyes expresses great sadness when Gatsby dies, disappointed by the fact that no one shows up to Gatsby's house to mourn his death. He symbolizes the few people that actually care about and take an interest in the enigmatic Jay Gatsby.
Fitzgerald capitalizes on the scene of Gatsby's death by implementing diction, biblical allusions, and the motif of time to reinforce his narrative that industrialization has corrupted the American Dream, thus creating a loss of control for man.
Although Fitzgerald does not place Daisy there at the funeral, there is a lot of evidence that shows she might have wished to be there, and that she felt sorry about Gatsby's death.
Daisy does not want to be seen attending Gatsby's funeral because she does care about her reputation, despite the fact that she has never loved Tom. As a result, she makes the decision to abstain out of concern that she will damage both her connection with Tom and her standing in the eyes of the general public.
Some say that Daisy was afraid of Tom, and others say that Tom kept the story about Gatsby's death from her, but the book is fairly clear that both Tom and Daisy didn't want to be bothered with what they probably considered to be a messy affair.
Water has a very serene and peaceful connotations, so making his life end in water gives this tranquil element that his life lacked. Moreover, a pool is an artificial representation of a sea-- so in a sense it acts a parallel to Gatsby's phoney life.
Gatsby's death is inescapable in order for him to achieve his own salvation and is presented as a sacrifice paralleling the death of Christ.
Gatsby's funeral is ironic because only three people attend, while enormous crowds attended his parties. Despite being a popular figure in the social scene, once Gatsby passes, neither Daisy, his business partner Henry Wolfsheim, nor any of his partygoers seem to remember him or care.
Although George Wilson pulls the trigger to shoot Jay Gatsby, the victim's death is not solely George Wilson's fault. Gatsby's death is a chain reaction involving different parties. However, Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, George Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan are the key characters responsible for Gatsby's death's causal nexus.
When Nick looks again, Gatsby has disappeared into the “unquiet darkness” – foreshadowing his disappearance into death at the end of the book. The inaccessibility of the green light tells us to expect a narrative in which the object of desire will never be obtained.
Henry C. Gatz, Gatsby's father, comes to the mansion three days after his son's death, aged and wearing plain clothes. He's grief-stricken and asks Nick what his relationship was with Gatsby. Nick says they were close friends.
The American dream expounds that through hard-work anyone can find success and happiness. However, when Gatsby died, he eliminated this possibility for all the characters.
In both book and movie, Gatsby is waiting for a phone call from Daisy, but in the film, Nick calls, and Gatsby gets out of the pool when he hears the phone ring. He's then shot, and he dies believing that Daisy was going to ditch Tom and go way with him.
His death symbolizes the loss of his pursuit of a higher social class and his lost love of Daisy. Nick Carraway mourns the loss of his friend and his ties to the elite class. He abandons his dreams of wealth and status. Gatsby's death symbolically marks the end of the American dream.
The Great Gatsby can be considered a tragedy in that it revolves around a larger-than-life hero whose pursuit of an impossible goal blinds him to reality and leads to his violent death.
Conclusion. Gatsby's death was inevitable because he caused his own death and he wanted to take the blame for Daisy,when Daisy ran over Myrtle because he thought that Daisy was going to get back with him and he lied about his past to get close to certain people that knew Daisy Buchanan,so that he could get close to her ...
Nick took care of Gatsby's funeral because he was his only close friend and the only person who really cared about him. Nobody else showed any interest in Gatsby after his death.
The only people to attend the funeral are Nick, Owl Eyes, a few servants, and Gatsby's father, Henry C. Gatz, who has come all the way from Minnesota. Henry Gatz is proud of his son and saves a picture of his house.
With vengeful intent, Mr. Wilson seeks out Gatsby at his house and shoots him (Sengar, 2022). Although George Wilson played a clear role in Gatsby's demise, he was misguided by both Tom and Daisy. The Buchanan, through moral irresponsibility, led him to Kill Gatsby.
Nobody else cared about him but Nick. Wolfshiem acts the way he does because he's a business man and can't risk a bad outcome on his business if he went to the funeral. I'm sure he cared, but he's firstly a man of enterprise, not friendship. What happened to Daisy and Tom after Gatsby died?
Although Daisy may have loved Gatsby once, she does not love him more than the wealth, status, and freedom that she has with Tom.
Gatsby reveals details of his and Daisy's long ago courtship. He was enthralled by her wealth, her big house, and the idea of men loving her. To be with Daisy, he pretended to be of the same social standing as her. One night, they slept together, and he felt like they were married.
Here we finally get a glimpse at Daisy's real feelings—she loved Gatsby, but also Tom, and to her those were equal loves. She hasn't put that initial love with Gatsby on a pedestal the way Gatsby has.