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.


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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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