The Great Gatsby- chapter 9.

• Time passing- after 2 years
• Personification of the report
• Imagery- alone, with Gatsby, the only one on his side.
• Nick is connected to all that has happened, and maybe feels partly responsible.
• Nick imagines Gatsby speaking to him, but he is dead, could this show loneliness and that he is missing Gatsby.
• The conversation through the telephone, the pace is slow as he is not getting any replies.
• Themes of outsiders, solidarity- against everyone else, Nick feels.
• Telephone fills in the businesses of Gatsby that we never learn before, all is revealed. As the telephone is always used, and Gatsby often mysteriously goes off to answer the phone calls.
• Recollections of Nick's past, showing how good his memory is, how detailed they are.
• Gatsby's dad's hands are 'trembling'- this tells the story as it links Gatsby to his father- character related actions.
• Repetition of the newspaper- The Chicago one.
• Gatsby's importance has gone with him.
• Another telephone conversation, with Klipspringer- he doesn't care about Gatsby's death, he just wants his shoes back- how ironic, he was a lodger.
• Paradox ( a paradox is a statement that is self contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time) Gatsby had nothing, he couldn't have Daisy, he only had money. It was only an illusion, the idea of love.
• Death brings out the truth, we learn Gatsby's background.
• Multi-voice narration, helping to tell the story.
• Weather- dark, the tone has changed, weather is often key for changes.
• His Dad is proud that his son is rich, he doesn't know that he has got all the money from wrong-doing and corruption.
• Touching irony- Gatsby's childhood schedule. Shows the innocence from a very young age, and that he was determined.
• 'Nobody came', to the funeral apart from 'Owl Eyes'.
• We are entering into his autobiographical state, memory Nick, romancing the past, it doesn't really relate to the rest of the novel, the structure changes. He realises none of the characters belong in the east, they are westerners.
• At the end when Tom says that Gatsby 'had it coming to him'. it relates back to the idea that there is lots of corruption and immoral things going on. They have all come to a stop: the illegal drinking at Gatsby's parties, Tom's mistress Myrtle, Daisy's fling with Gatsby, Gatsby's affairs. 
• Daisy and Tom use people and cause lots of problems and then retreat to their money,  they are as bad as Gatsby. The excitement of New York and the east in general is no longer thought of well- it brings back memories.
• Imagery- of the settlers, the Europeans  Unknown world. Brings the story back to the start, Nick is back alone and returns home.