Examples Of Deceit In The Great Gatsby

The Bonds of Deceit

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character Jay Gatsby is the epitome of what it's like to be deceitful. The Great Gatsby takes place during the roaring 1920’s, On the shallow end it is about a lost love and reliving the past, however, the main theme is much larger. Gatsby embodies two personas, one is the person most know him as, the man living the American Dream of wealth, and his true self, who is quite the rags to riches tale that no one knows the truth of. Gatsby pretends to be someone he is not, this intertwines with the essence of the work as whole by emphasizing the contrast between what is real on the inside and what would appear to be real on the outside.

The dishonesty and deceit in the novel is not apparent from the very beginning, but it is there. Even the title “The Great Gatsby” is dishonest because Jay Gatsby is far from great, and his name is not truly Gatsby. He seems to have an infinite web of lies, with each disclosed lie another is not long after revealed. Although no one truly knows the truth behind Gatsby,

The true life background of the infamous Jay Gatsby is not known to most characters, Even Gatsby's web of lies

He sees himself as the embodiment of the American Dream, whether that is true or not is unclear, because his entire life is also a lie. It seems like he didn't mind participating in illicit activities and lying his way to the top of it meant he could rewrite the past and write his future as if it were his own personal book that he could change and control as he wishes. The main themes of this novel were deceit and materialism. Deceit develops the theme by contrasting the differences Jay Gatsby goes through in the strive for wealth and his lost love that he’ll never