{"id":5055,"date":"2017-09-03T15:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-09-03T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T15:33:35","slug":"GatsbyI","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/GatsbyI\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is this chapter mainly about?<\/a><\/p>\n

Nick describes Gatsby's father as he looks at a book from his son's childhood, "He was reluctant to close the book, reading each item aloud and then looking eagerly at me. I think he rather expected me to copy down the list for my own use."<\/p>\n

What does "reluctant" mean in this context?<\/a><\/p>\n

At one point, Nick says, "From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg Village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me."<\/p>\n

What does "surmise" mean in the context of this passage?<\/a><\/p>\n

Klispringer calls Nick requesting that he sends him a pair of shoes he left behind at Gatsby's. How does Nick react?<\/a><\/p>\n

Later in the chapter, Nick is talking about Tom and says, "I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified."<\/p>\n

What does "justified" mean in this context?<\/a><\/p>\n

Gatsby's father shows Nick a book that belonged to Gatsby when he was a teenager. What had Gatsby written inside the back cover?<\/a><\/p>\n

Besides Gatsby's father and Nick, who else attends Gatsby's funeral?<\/a><\/p>\n

Think back to Gatsby parties and consider Gatsby's funeral. What does this illustrate about Gatsby's life?<\/a><\/p>\n

Four paragraphs from the end, Fitzgerald writes "Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house…."<\/p>\n

What does "vanished" mean in this context?<\/a><\/p>\n

Later in the same paragraph, Fitzgerald adds "…for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent…."<\/p>\n

What does "transitory" mean in this context?<\/a><\/p>\n

Look at the last few paragraphs of the book. What does Daisy's green light symbolize?<\/a><\/p>\n

Were there any events that weren't clear to you?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is this chapter mainly about? Nick describes Gatsby's father as he looks at a book from his son's childhood, "He was reluctant to close the book, reading each item aloud and then looking eagerly at me. I think he rather expected me to copy down the list for my own use." What does "reluctant" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}