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14. Why do you think "every one has some vague right at the end" to the "intense personal interest" that Nick speaks about? In your own words, explain what he means.
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Pg. 164 "I found myself on Gatsby's side, and alone. 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. At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested—interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end."
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15. What irony is represented in this situation? How does it connect to Fitzgerald's theme?
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Pgs. 174 – 175 "About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and a little later four or five servants and the postman from West Egg, in Gatsby's station wagon, all wet to the skin. As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of some one splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around. It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby's books in the library one night three months before. . . . We straggled down quickly through the rain to the cars. Owl-Eyes spoke to me by the gate. 'I couldn't get to the house,' he remarked. 'Neither could anybody else.' 'Go on!' He started. 'Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.'"