Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Who actually delivers Gatsby's eulogy at the funeral in The Great Gatsby?Why did Fitzgerald find it necessary to add this particular part into the...

The only other thing that I can think to add to this is the fact that Nick's final remarks act as a eulogy of sorts for Gatsby.



Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——


So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.



In essence, this is Nick's eulogy for Gatsby. A eulogy does not have to be delivered at the funeral. It is generally a text of some sort (it can be a poem, even) that honors the dead. In this case, the entire novel is a eulogy as well, an extended honoring of Jat Gatz his one true friend, Nick Carraway.

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