Two years after Gatsby’s death, Nick describes the events that surrounded the funeral. Reporter are everywhere trying to get the whole story. More exaggerated stories than the rumors about Gatsby when he was throwing his parties, circulate about Gatsby’s relationship to Myrtle and Wilson. Nick tries to hold a large funeral for him, but all of Gatsby’s former friends have either disappeared or refuse to come, like Meyer Wolfshiem and Klipspringer. Tom and Daisy have apparently moved away with no forwarding address. The only people to attend the funeral are Nick, Owl Eyes, a few servants, and Gatsby’s father, Henry C. Gatz, who has come all the way from Minnesota. Henry Gatz is so proud of his son and saves a picture of his house. He also fills Nick in on Gatsby’s early life, showing him a book in which a young Gatsby had written a schedule for self-improvement. Nick decides to move back to the Midwest because he is sick of the East and its empty values. He breaks off his relationship with Jordan, who suddenly claims that she has become engaged to another man. Just before he leaves, Nick encounters Tom on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Nick initially refuses to shake Tom’s hand but eventually accepts. Tom tells him that he was the one who told Wilson that Gatsby owned the car that killed Myrtle, and describes how greatly he suffered when he had to give up the apartment he kept in the city for his affair. He says that Gatsby deserved to die. Nick comes to the conclusion that Tom and Daisy are careless and uncaring people and that they destroy people and things, knowing that their money will shield them from ever having to face any negative consequences.
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