Homework: The Great Gatsby (Chapter 9)---Write an editorial for the New York Times from the point of view of Nick Caraway after Gatsby's funeral.

On a rainy September day, I attended Mr. Gatsby's funeral. It was the most deserted funeral I have ever attended. Mr. Gatsby, who was an American hero in World War I, and a successful businessman, had only a few people to attend his farewell ceremony. None of the crowd of people that once attended his large party, not even his long pursued love, Daisy, not his close friend in business, Mr. Wolfshiem. It was so pitiful to see that happened.

Mr. Gatsby was a person with a broad acquaintance. He is known to give huge party to hundreds of people, invited and uninvited. He was generous to accept people that he did not know in his party. In his business career, Mr. Wolfshiem and other important partners often appeared in restaurants and cafe with Mr. Gatsby. Daisy, Mr. Gatsby's lover, who is Mr. Buchanan's wife, used to visit Mr. Gatsby's house frequently in the past year. But all of them did not show up in the funeral excepts a man who had been in the party.

Is Mr. Gatsby's funeral really so unimportant that doesn't deserve his friends to drop down their businesses, to attend it? Or, are they Mr. Gatsby's friend? According to Mr. Wolfshiem, "when a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way." Which means he is not Gatsby's friend anymore, and simply because he died. He just used Gatsby as a tool to earn money, when he died, just throw it away.

On the other hand, Daisy claimed that she loved Mr. Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby tried so hard to earn money, and wanted to satisfy her, and then, marry her. The result---was totally opposite as Mr. Gatsby thought. She is now having a good time with her husband, Tom, and probably never thought of coming to Mr. Gatsby's funeral.

From Mr. Gatsby's funeral, we can see that the American Dream of pursuing things are decayed, by material, money,... and made American selfish, ruthless. Mr. Gatsby, a poor dream pursuer, was just a tool of the others. In this land, he has almost no real friends.