The Great Gatsby: Chapter 9-Page 163-180

Summary

• This chapter starts off with the reporters, police, and detectives showing up everyday at Gatsby's house.  While Nick tries to plan Gatsby's funeral, we learn that Gatsby's father, Henry C. Gatz, is alive and is going to Gatby's house to meet Nick and Nick goes to Meyer Wolfsheim's work place to convince him to come to Gatby's funeral.  Meyer says he is not going to attend Gatby's funeral, but we learn that Meyer made Gatsby and gave Gatsby his job opportunities.  No one shows up to the funeral except Nick, Henry Gatz, and Owl Eyes.  The chapter ends with Nick talking about his past, breaking up with Jordan, and saying how Tom and Daisy just screw everything up. 
• Meyer Wolfsheim 
• Quote:  ""We were so thick like that in everything"-he held up two bulbous fingers-"always together."" 
• Description:  Small, flat-nosed Jew, large head, visible hair growing out of his nostrils, tiny and dark eyes, overweight, eats like an animal, selfish, talks a lot about what he did, gambler, fifty years old-from a different generation, seems like he does not care enough about Gatsby to go to his funeral 
• Meyer is in this novel because he serves as a source that knows about Gatsby's past.  He knows Gatsby more than anyone else in this novel, but only as Gatsby, not James Gatz.  Meyer also makes us think that Gatsby is involved in a lot of illegal business because he says that Gatsby and him were really good friends back in the day.  He also scared the crap out of one Tom's friends so he would not say anything about Gatsby's past.  Meyer also fixed the World Series.  
• Quote that Stood Out: "But it wasn't any use.  Nobody came."
• This quote stood out because it shows how no one really cares about Gatsby. Everyone just knows him as a person who hosts parties.  It also illustrates how Gatsby never had any friends or told anyone about him.  Everyone just thought he was somebody who killed a man before because Gatsby never showed his face around.  It also stood out to me because it is sad that no one showed up at his funeral except his dad and his neighbor.  It also just summarizes how Gatsby never was close to anyone.  He was a person who only chased after his dream and never made any friends that supported him.  The only person he was after was Daisy.  No one else mattered to him.