Reflection for Chapter 9

           Chapter 9 was the end of the book and was for me the worst chapter of the book. The chapter is about Nick looking back at everything they have been through after two years. It seems like a summary of all that has happened to them and felt very distant for some reason.  With the change of what I imagined the ending would be like, the ending of the book was way different than I expected it to be. With Daisy and Tom leaving without leaving an address behind to no one coming to Gatsby’s funeral was not the kind of conclusion I had for this particular book. For some reason the ending I ad in mind was way different than a summary o a look back. It would have taken place the next day after the murder of Gatsby.

To me, it felt like a really depressing chapter especially because no one makes it to Gatsby’s funeral except for Nick, owl eyes and Gatsby’ father who is proud of his son for becoming who he was. With the different ending to the book, it felt like everyone just falls apart from each other. Nick returns to his silent life with no one around him, Tom and Daisy move away with their daughter with irony of both loosing their loved ones. For Tom this is his mistress Myrtle and for Daisy it’s Gatsby, the guy she promised to wait but didn’t. I think that it wasn’t bad that Tom and Daisy moved away especially after the entire trauma they had but it’s hard to understand why they don’t tell Nick about it. Jordan Baker and Nick also separate their ways and we learn about Jordan Baker is actually engaged to another man.