Read the following excerpt from the great gatsby: 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. based on this excerpt, which best explains the irony of the title the great gatsby? a. one expects more than a few people to attend the funeral of a great man. b. it is unexpected for the hero and central character in the novel to die at the end. c. the weather on the day of gatsby's funeral matches the sadness of the occasion. d. the rain symbolizes a weeping world and attests to gatsby's true greatness.