A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. SO did Gatsby's father. And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall his eyes began to blink anxiously and he spoke of the rain in a worried uncertain way. 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.
This section of writing says a lot about Gatsby as a person. If a person was looking from the outside at Gatsby, they would think he had the life. He had a giant beautiful house and was filthy rich, which is what everyone in this novel strives for, but when you get to know him, it is really an illusion. In the beginning of the novel he seems like the perfect person, but as the novel goes on his illusions start to come crashing down. Parts of his life were true Yes, he does have a bunch of money, money that he got in a questionable way, not by hard work. But he is completely alone, most of his life was just built upon illusion after illusion. Even here, his dad was making an illusion. His father was talking about the weather and reassuring himself that more people would come, but no one did. It is disgusting that people would come to some pointless party of his, but people would just make excuse after excuse not to come to his funeral. Nobody would ever think that a man like Gatsby, unimaginably rich, would ever have a funeral that no one would come to. He has to have it made, but Gatsby really doesn't have anything. He has been obsessed with one thing for the past five years that took over his life, Daisy, he had this giant illusion that they were completely in love and that they were pretty much married, but once he found out about her loving someone else, he eventually realized he was fighting a lost battle, from the moment Gatsby lost Daisy, illusion after illusion came crashing down as well and he realized that. The only time that Gatsby was real, was sadly at his funeral, all illusions dropped, and that was the first time we saw completely what Gatsby was like, a sad and lonely older man.
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I agree with the thing you said about Gatsby being obsessed with one thing for five years. He didn't really have a life. It was all just an illusion. He didn't really ever want all that wealth and stuff that he ended up with, so it didn't make him a happy person like Americans and our American Dream seem to think it should. It was all just working toward his ultimate goal of getting Daisy, and since that goal failed in the end he was not a happy person. His life was empty and pathetic and he had this one goal that he never achieved, and that is why no one came to his funeral. No one cared about him because he didn't care about anyone. It was all about Daisy, and no one else mattered, so he didn't matter to anyone else.
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