Examples Of Dishonesty In The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald published a Novel known  as the Great Gatsby in the year of 1925. At the time of it’s release it wasn’t very successful it was only after a couple years afterwards that it started to gain success. In modern day it is very well-known to a majority of High School Students, College students, and adults. The era in which this novel takes place in is during the 1920’s a historic time in America’s History which was known as the Roaring Twenties. Businesses and Stock markets were doing so well and it was the highest point of America’s Economy. Fitzgerald introduces a couple of interesting characters that fit together and really sets the tone for the novel. The first character introduced into the storyline is Nick Carraway and throughout the story he follows a character who goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel Gatsby is very mysterious towards everyone especially towards Nick, no one really knows who is Jay Gatsby or the details of his past or in what manner he was able to gain all the wealth he has. Gatsby is an example of character deception.

Throughout the Great Gatsby, wealth and status is a key theme. As a result of these themes shallowness and immorality is something that presents itself in characters throughout the novel quite frequently. For a person to be shallow it means that they lack emotional and intellectual depth, an example of this being someone who judges another on their looks or quantity of money they possess. Immorality can cross with this idea of shallowness due to the fact that as a result of the characters shallowness they become immoral or do immoral things, however it is when a person goes against the accepted ideas of what is right within society. Both of these themes are shown throughout the Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald and a way that Fitzgerald shows this immorality and shallowness is through female characters in the Great Gatsby.

Nick describes himself as being honest, to what extent does Fitzgerald's portrayal of Nick assess whether the reader is meant to believe he is honest?

Deception is an act intentionally inflicted upon others in order to, satisfy one's wants and needs. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby deceives others for both his personal gain and love. While Jay Gatsby lives day by day deceiving others, he thinks not much of it. Gatsby sees himself has merely just moving on from the past and onto a new life. However, through his acts of deception he is stirring up a fatal situation. Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as a man who is wealthy and as some may say “living the life”. Jay Gatsby however, is merely a mask put on by James Gatz, the same man, to live the life he has always desired. Once settled in as Jay Gatsby, he starts to find it difficult to maintain an image expected by others. In this novel, James Gatz lives a false life as Jay Gatsby to satisfy his wants and needs, but has his act of deceiving others comes to an crumble Fitzgerald is able to showcase the struggle and cost of deception.

Lies are a treacherous thing, yet everyone tells a few lies during their lifetime. Deceit surrounds us all the time; even when one reads classic literature. For example, F. Scott Fitzgerald makes dishonesty a major theme in his novel The Great Gatsby. The falsehoods told by the characters in this novel leads to inevitable tragedy when the truth is revealed.

Have you ever wondered why it can be so hard to tell the truth, or why it seems better to tell a lie? In both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Rob Marshall’s Chicago, characters lie because they feel that it is easier. However, lying leads to a downward- spiral. The society we live in can either lead us to a complicated relationship with the truth or easy going. The problem with constantly telling lies is that it starts off with one then leads to another until everything you say is a lie. People know it is easier to tell lies than face the truth because they are either doing it for money, or protection for themselves, people they love, or relationships. Yes, telling lies can help but imagine the damage you’re building up on the way. Nobody likes liars and liars can be found anywhere, even families lie to each other. Relationships are just like thin pieces of paper that make small tears to it every time a lie is told. The paper can be put back together but it will never be the same or be seen the same.

Many works of literature contain a character who intentionally deceives others. In Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the character Jay Gatsby deceives the entire world with his riches and his extravagant house on West Egg, as well as his bootleg industries. Although it was deliberate and a little selfish, he does it all to find and woo what he believes to be his true love, Daisy Buchanan.

As a society, America has created certain ideas and stereotypes of each class including the citizens within them. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald focuses around the superficial communities of West and East Egg, and their misconceptions of one another. The citizens of East Egg, such as Daisy and Tom Buchanan, frown upon the up-and-coming men of West Egg. This includes Gatsby, who dreams of the riches they take for granted. Gatsby, who obtains his money through dishonest means appears villainous, unsuccessfully attempting to join the wealthy and elite society of East egg. However, there may be more to Gatsby's story. As Nick, the narrator, says he is “worth the whole damn bunch put together”(154). Through his descriptions and comparison of Tom’s house and Gatsby’s house, Fitzgerald reveals the true nature of the two men. While Gatsby appears to be morally corrupt, in the end he actually has pure intentions, instead it is Tom who emits negativity and is ungrateful for his life.

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author uses the actions of Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby to portray that betrayal as an irreversible action one can never truly move past. The theme of betrayal is represented by a broken red heart on the poster. Hearts represent love, and betrayal is represented by the shattered heart. A broken heart is a metaphor of intense emotional pain. The characters in the novel go through a lot of events. They experience love and betrayal, which leaves them in a shocked situation. Moreover, the colour red represents passion, desire, and love, which are the main causes of betrayal. They all experience these unstable emotions. Passion causes Daisy to betray Gatsby. Desire makes Tom betray Daisy. Finally, love is what ends Gatsby’s life. For these reasons, a red broken heart is the main shape of the collage. Furthermore, other than the symbol, the theme is demonstrated through the words and actions of some characters.

Money has never meant to make people happy in its nature, and the more of it one possesses the more dependent one will be. The Great Gatsby tells a story of Jay Gatsby, mysterious young man, trying to be wealthy to resume the romantic relationship with Daisy Buchanan, his beautiful but spoiled partner before the war. In the book, Gatsby and Daisy represent “new rich” and “old rich” respectively, and Gatsby tries as hard as possible to win Daisy back despite the fact that their perspectives of society and life are far from the same. At the end, Gatsby chooses to sacrifice himself to protect Daisy after she sits Myrtle Wilson, but he is still unable to change Daisy's mind about leaving her husband. Throughout the novel, the author establishes

Lies…. The biggest weapon a person can have. People can warp reality and change the way you see things. Truth might be the noblest of traits, but I do not mean truth you’ve twisted, I mean honest truth. One of my favorite stories was about the expensive price you pay for the truth. It is hard to be completely honest, so all you can do is try. In The Great Gatsby they do not care about the truth, and they only spread lies. The rich prey on those they feel superior to, and with their corruption they go through life like waves of self-centeredness. Gatsby got the worst of everything, and after dealing with it all he didn’t even get his happily ever after. No man was innocent, but Nick Carraway was pretty close. However, Nick’s pragmatic sense of life seemed hopeless in stopping the lies and cruelty, this trait left him ignorant almost the whole story. Nick’s reverence for Gatsby rooted from Gatsby’s childlike hope that led him to love the pretentious Daisy, and it was undeniable how much that affected his and Nick’s friendship, for all the bad qualities Gatsby died being one of the few good people in Nick’s eyes. Furthermore, the biggest liar of all might be Daisy, she lied to Tom, Nick and Gatsby, but while my hatred for her is strong, Tom is who truly started it all. The story is about this demented couple who destroy everything with lies and betrayal, then retreat into their vast money, and they abandon people who they hurt and even murdered. With no regard for anyone else

Sometimes people put on a facade for the rest of the world to hide the bad in themselves which they don't want others to see. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan is caught in between her husband, Tom Buchanan and her first love, Jay Gatsby who are both fighting for her love. Daisy is sympathized for as she is put in this tough spot, however true intentions are revealed as she leads both of these men on. As she has relations with both Tom and Gatsby, Daisy selfishly acts to only please herself and protect her character. Although Fitzgerald carefully builds Daisy's character with associations of light, purity, and innocence, when all is said and done, she is the opposite from what presents herself to be.

Throughout the novel, the idea of the American Dream is shown by all the dishonesty in privacy of the characters. Fitzgerald was one of the most true dreamers in the 20s because he could portray and bring alive this idea that anyone could become rich but at the same time he was able to be realistic and show how they got rich. Also he was able to show that having a lot of money does not mean you are happy. “Fitzgerald embodied in his tissues and nervous system the fluid polarities of American experiences: success and failure, illusion and disillusion, dream and nightmare.” (Callahan John, pp.1).

Throughout The Great Gatsby, its author F. Scott Fitzgerald expresses the concept of corruption in social stratification through Gatsby and Daisy, and their “social group”. Gatsby lives on the Eastern side, the “new wealth” whilst Daisy lives on the opposite where the “old money” folk live. They are from two separate yet colliding worlds, knowing each other from the past and meeting once again years after. Gatsby followed Daisy to the island, to follow his heart and dreams of being with her, believing it would be everything he had ever dreamed. Albeit their reunion, and Daisy‘s love for him, they suffer numerous impediments that place more challenges in their relationship, bringing out the truth inside that they could not admit to one another

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, moral decay runs rampant among the upper classes. Traits like materialism, superficiality, decadence, and deceitfulness are embedded into the personalities of the wealthy characters. It would seem that decay plays as much a part in the upper-class mentality as money does. By metonymy, wealth and immorality become increasingly intertwined as the narrative progresses. For wealth doesn’t just influence who these characters are, but what they do: break hearts, ruin relationships and destroy lives. Through its association of moral degeneracy with affluence, The Great Gatsby’s message is clear – perhaps now more than ever: money corrupts.