Do people only think of him or herself? If given the opportunity will people hurt others in order to gain what they want? The Great Gatsby proves that people will chose him or herself and lie instead of being honest. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby the story follows a man named Nick Carraway and how he spent his summer of 1922 between parties, lies, feuds, and even a couple murders. People are inherently selfish and dishonest and will connive and lie their way to power and to higher social classes. Women are selfish because of their urge to simply latch onto a man and use him as a means for funds. The way Daisy marries Tom after just saying that she didn’t want to marry him the day before their wedding. She chose his comfortable …show more content…
Lies may boost their popularity or even and social class. In chapter three Nick remembers a story about Jordan “a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round.” (Fitzgerald 57). Jordan wanted the wealth and recognition for winning the competition, so she resorted to dishonest tactics in order to win. Jordan was well known after that, and Nick said himself “At first I was flattered to go places with her, because she was a golf champion, and everyone knew her name.” (Fitzgerald 57). Just being close to Jordan let Nick feel her popularity, so why should Jordan have played fair because if she didn’t she was going to become a celebrity? Later on Tom mentioned “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.” (Fitzgerald 133). You can either work hard and legally and make enough money to live comfortably or be dishonest and make a living illegally and live like a fancy celebrity. Gatsby chose the dishonest style of work and look what that got him, a mansion and on the top of the social classes. That is how Marxism plays a role in why people are inherently selfish and