Central Ideas In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A central idea that is revealed through our description of Gatsby is that you will never know who a person truly is until you meet them face to face and get to know them. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick lives next door to Gatsby who is very wealthy and well known. However, Nick has never met Gatsby before, but has heard a lot of rumors about him. Throughout chapter 1 and 2, Nick only knows about Gatsby being a wealthy man who lives in a mansion. Then in chapter 3, Nick was invited to one of Gatsby’s parties where he heard rumors about him. Specifically, on page 44 it states, “‘Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.” A thrill passed over all of us. “it’s more that he was a German spy during the war”. One of the