GATSBY Ch. 9 Fill-Ins

Master Gatsby Chapter 9! Fill-in blanks on funeral details, character reactions, and Nick's crucial role.

As you read chapter 9 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, fill in the blanks with the appropriate information. 1. The chapter begins by describing everyone’s reaction to Gatsby's death. Police officers are everywhere, and reporters swarm around for a juicy story. 2. Catherine is questioned due to her late brother-in-law's murder 3. She lies to the police, telling them that Myrtle was completely happy with her husband, and she had been in no mischief whatsoever. 4. Nick takes up the responsibility of taking care of Gatsby's body and answering inquiries. 5. He attempts to get in touch with Daisy, but she and Tom had "gone away early that afternoon." They took baggage with them, and there is no longer any way to contact them. 6. When Meyer Wolfsheim also doesn’t answer his phone, Nick imagines what Gatsby would say. 7. Meyer Wolfsheim answers Nick in a letter. The response tells Nick that he is completely upset, but he cannot come to the funeral because he is "tied up in some very important business." 8. Henry C. Gatz, Gatsby’s father, comes to the funeral. He heard of his son’s death through the Chicago newspaper. 9. Gatsby's father calls Gatsby "Jimmy." He seems very proud of him and is constantly talking about how brilliant and talented his son had been. 10. Nick begins calling “friends” of Gatsby’s who had constantly been at the parties. Klipspringer, the man who lived at Gatsby’s house for a long time, is one of the people Nick calls. He cannot attend the funeral, but he asks Nick to send him a pair of shoes that he left at Gatsby's house. 11. Nick goes to visit Meyer Wolfsheim, and he tells Nick about the first time he met Gatsby. Gatsby was a young major just out of the army. He claims that he raised Gatsby up out of nothing, but he still can't attend Gatsby's funeral. 12. Nick returns to Gatsby’s place and Mr. Gatz spends more time talking to Nick about Gatsby. Gatsby visited his father two years ago and bought him a house. As a young man, Gatsby was very organized and strict with himself and moving beyond his station in life. 13. No one shows up at the funeral besides the minister, Gatsby’s father, Nick, the few servants left, and Owl Eyes(from the library). 14. The narration of the book then changes a bit. Nick begins to compare the East and West and how different the two are from each other. He believes that maybe because Tom and Gatsby, Daisy, Jordan, and himself are all Midwesterners, they don’t belong in the East and can’t fit in. 15. He tells us that after Gatsby’s death, the East is haunted for him. 16. The one thing that Nick decides he must do before leaving is talk to Jordan. He describes to her what all happened and why he no longer wants her. She informs him that she is engaged to another man (which Nick doubts). 17. The narration leaps ahead a few months and Nick is still in New York. He happens to run into Tom, who was shopping at a jewelry store on Fifth Avenue. 18. Nick confronts Tom. He was the one who told George Wilson that Gatsby owned the yellow car. He sent George to kill him, and Tom thinks that what he had done is "entirely justified." 19. The novel ends with the line: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”