The Great Gatsby Summary Chapter 8

At dawn, Nick goes to Gatsby, who says that he waited for Daisy until four o’clock, but that nothing happened. Nick tells him he should leave before they trace the car, but Gatsby doesn't want to because he doesn't want to leave Daisy. He tells Nick about how much he loved her when they first met. She was the first girl he wanted to seem worthy to even though he was a penniless young man. Eventually, he loved her so much that he started to feel as though they were married. She promised she would wait for him to come back from war, but when he did, she was married to the wealthy Tom. After telling his story, Nick realizes that he is extremely late for work, so he says goodbye and tells Gatsby that he is worth more than any of the upper class people he knows. When he is at his work, he is too distracted and also
Nick describes how after the deaths, reporters, police, and newspaper men surrounded the mansion to get information on the murder and how even after he is gone, rumors were still being created about Gatsby. He tries to plan a funeral, but it seems that all of Gatsby’s “friends” were suddenly gone. Tom and Daisy had moved without leaving any contact information, Wolfsheim was too busy, and Klipspringer had an excuse about a social event. The few people that do show up to the funeral were Nick, Owl Eyes, and Gatsby’s dad, who thought highly of his son. Nick breaks off his relationship with Jordan, who claims that she is engaged to another, and decides to move back to the Midwest. Before he leaves, he encounters Tom who tells him that he was the one that told Wilson that Gatsby owned the car that killed Myrtle because he believed that Gatsby deserved to die. Nick realizes that Tom and Daisy are careless people who use their wealth to avoid problems. On his last night, he walks to the empty mansion and imagines what it looked like to the people who discovered this New