Great Gatsby - Reading Journal Chapter 9

Nick describes himself as alone, even though he's met so many people in the book

He starts the book alone and ends it alone

He Imagines the voice of Gatsby (personification) even though he's just a dead body, showing that he hasn't accepted his death yet 

Through time, two years later and still remembers the summer in detail

Chapter is told through telephone

"his eyes leaking isolated and unpunctual tears" Nick has lost his ability to connect with people since Gatsby's death 

Nick's descriptions of things are duller in colour and vigor now showing how since the death the tone of the story has changed

The end of the novel but many references to the beginning

Multi voice narration through phone, Nick and Wolsheim

Father son link with the trembling hands; links different parts of the novel