Gatsby's Funeral by

Gatsby's Funeral by https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q How does the fact that no one attends Gatsby's funeral build on the theme of wealth and acceptance? Use at least one quote from the reading to support your opinion. en-us 2018-03-09 19:00:53 UTC 2018-05-17 14:43:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Imran Islam https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/240995318 It builds on those themes by showing wealth is like a light to moths. While burning it attracts many, but when gone no moth returns to the place where it was. The quote "Dimly I heard someone murmur ‘Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on,’ and then the owl-eyed man said ‘Amen to that,’ in a brave voice." Is contradictory to what we think of Gatsby. He did not get Daisy and furthermore he is dead, which hardly makes him seem blessed. Though his wealth may have made him seem blessed in life, the truth is shown in death.]]> 2018-03-12 17:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/240995318 Mahogany McIver https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/241468296 Gatsby's small funeral continues to show that the picture of wealth, and the things that come along with it, to be fleeting. Once Gatsby is dead, and his business stops, and Daisy goes away, ultimately, all he had left was the dream of a woman he thought he wanted, and a friend who "disapproved of him from beginning to end." (Fitzgerald 154). Once he and his money left, Gatsby ended up being just as poor as he was all those years ago. "Go on!' He started. 'Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.' He took off his glasses and wiped them again, outside and in. 'The poor son-of-a-bitch' he said." (Fitzgerald 175)]]> 2018-03-13 16:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/241468296 Cameron Crosby https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/241511431 The fact that no one went to Gatsby's funeral shows that the people around Gatsby weren't friends of his because they liked him, but rather because they got something from him. They don't get anything from coming to his funeral, so they don't go. This shows that there only interest was his wealth, so he was only accepted by the community because he was wealthy.]]> 2018-03-13 17:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/241511431 B. Hannon https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/241576797 It builds on the theme by showing how most people were only friends with Gatsby because he was wealthy. "‘Go on!’ He started. ‘Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.’"

]]> 2018-03-13 18:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/241576797 Blessings Dotson https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/241611578 It symbolizes that even when you have all of the money in the world, it doesn't make people actually like and care for you. Gatsby threw parties and everybody showed up to his home and partied "with him" but at his funeral nobody showed up because it shows that when you have lots of money, people will only use you. ]]> 2018-03-13 20:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/241611578 Clay Myers https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/242530388 It builds on the theme of it being difficult to build any meaningful relationships with money and privilege blocking the way. While Gatsby probably knows many people, they never spent any time learning who he really was because they were only interested in the perks of being associated and not being a friend.]]> 2018-03-15 18:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/242530388 Kyler Garrison https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/242636570 The hundreds of people who came to Gatsby's parties didn't come to his funeral because they didn't actually have a relationship with him. In chapter 9, Nick mentions that, ""The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn't any use. Nobody came" (ch 9, para 137). They only went to his house to eat, drink and socialize with other upper class people. They basically used him. This builds on the theme of wealth and acceptance in that the "old money" still doesn't see "new money" as being in the same social class.]]> 2018-03-16 00:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/242636570 melia smith https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/243021989 I believe the change over the novel between his glamorous, highly attended parties and his not well attended funeral show how ingenuine his relationships were in his life. 'Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds...' flatly states the noticeable attendance. Gatsbys wealth and shallow charm attracted people but not to his actual self, just to his appearance and extrinsic lifestyle. ]]> 2018-03-16 23:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/243021989 Ione https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/243125498 In this social group wealth is equivalent to acceptance. Once Gatsby stopped maintaining his image of wealth everything dissolved. At his funeral, the man with the owl eyes who symbolizes the truth states ""Go on!" He started. "Why, my God! They used to go there by the hundreds." He took off his glasses and wiped them again, outside and in. "The poor son-of-a-bitch." The truth is in the pity expressed. Pity is equivocal with poorness

]]> 2018-03-17 22:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/243125498 Chun https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/243234063 Fitzgerald uses the fact that no one attends Gatsby's funeral to build on the theme of wealth and acceptance. In "I was relieved too for that seemed to promise another friend at Gatsby’s grave. I didn’t want it to be in the papers and draw a sightseeing crowd so I’d been calling up a few people myself. They were hard to find.", Fitzgerald is drawing a contrast between Gatsby's funeral and Gatsby's party. Gatsby's parties attracted masses from everywhere and from all walks of life, it attracted the "sightseeing crowd" that accepted Gatsby's wealth but not his genuine self.]]> 2018-03-18 18:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/243234063 Brayden https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/243792232 It is very ironic because he had many "friends" at his parties but none of them went to his funeral. ]]> 2018-03-19 23:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/243792232 Johnny Perez https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/244155259 The fact that no one went to gatsbys funeral is showing the theme of wealth and acceptance because its like he was blackballed from society after his decline.]]> 2018-03-20 17:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/244155259 Draken https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/244297613 I think that it relates to the fact that even though he was so rich and was always surrounded by people he had no real friends other than the one that came.

]]> 2018-03-20 22:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/244297613 Kyra https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/245336599 I think that no one showing up was meant to show how all the people that attended the parties just wanted a fancy and popular place to party with a mysterious man to talk about. Now that they don't have that and many people now had more about Gatsby figured out, they didn't care. ]]> 2018-03-23 07:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/245336599 Rayna https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/248361175 I think that this scene shows that you cant be rich in love and rich in money with someone who only wants one of the two.

I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.
even daisy the one he loved most cared about him

]]> 2018-04-04 03:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/248361175 Maya https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/254203828 The fact that no one attends Gatsby's funeral builds on the theme of wealth and acceptance by demonstrating that new money might get people to come to your house, eat your food, and drink your liquor but in the end your social status and acceptance goes back to whether you were born into a good family of wealth and no one will actually claim they were your friend merely because they attending your superficial parties. As the last sentence in the book states, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

]]> 2018-04-23 00:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/254203828 Luke Hansen https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/261604359 The fact that no one attends Gatsby's funeral builds the theme that in this society being wealth is not enough to be accepted. Gatsby is a man that is very mysterious and is someone who not that many people know a lot about. This creates this sense of mystery that surround him. We can see this when guest at his party are gossiping about him, The two girls and Jordan leaned together confidentially. ‘Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.’ A thrill passed over all of us. The three Mr. Mumbles bent forward and listened eagerly. ‘I don’t think it’s so much THAT,’ argued Lucille skepti-cally; ‘it’s more that he was a German spy during the war.’ One of the men nodded in confirmation. ‘I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany,’ he assured us positively. ‘Oh, no,’ said the first girl, ‘it couldn’t be that, because he was in the American army during the war.’" This shows that people dont really know that much about Gatsby, but that people don't really accept him in socitey. They treat him like he is someone who is an outsider and all they care about is his money and the parties that he throw. This is why no one shows up to Gatsby funeral because no one really care about him expect Nick and the man from the library. ]]> 2018-05-17 14:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jennifer_white21/7hq9ao4bc55q/wish/261604359