Funeral

I was surprised by how many people came to the funeral. It was upsetting to see only a couple people there. I felt badly because it was only Nick and Jay’s father, Mr. Gatz. Mr. Gatz only came because he heard about it. Other than his death, they never seemed to keep in touch or talk, so he only cared about him now that he was gone.
It seemed liked Nick was Gatsby’s only friend during the whole book. He didn’t really seem to have anyone close to him. Gatsby had parties every Saturday night that so many people would come to, but only one of the partygoers, Owl Eyes, came to the funeral. Even when Gatsby would throw enormous parties, he would never socialize with anyone there. I didn’t understand why Daisy did not come. It actually made me really mad that she didn’t attend because it was he fault that he died in the first place.
I think that this was meant to show us that Gatsby’s whole life was just an attempt to get to obtain an unreachable goal. Everything that he did was just in an effort to get Daisy back, and other than this dream of her, he had nothing. Almost like Gatsby himself was empty, so was his funeral.