Great Gatsby Essay

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, By F.Scott Fitzgerald it is revealed that Gatsby's background is not everything he told Nick it was, his parents still alive and his money not where Nick think is from. But why did Nick believe everything in Gatsby's facade?Jay Gatspy is a liar and a good one with not ever breaking his story to Nick until little bits of it showed eventually, with the name change, lying about where he is from, and how he got the money to become wealthy. Jay Gatspy, Nick's wealthy neighbor and in the end “friend” if you could call him that. Everyone around Nick called his friend Gatsby or Jay or something along those lines. But it is revealed that at his funeral his fathers last name is Gatz, “...I told him that all arrangements had been

That is what he said, but is that entirely true? As the truth comes undone it is revealed that Gatsby did not inherit a cent from nobody. It should not be a big deal, besides the fact that Gatsby on many occasions has said that he got all of his money from his dead parents, weirdly enough his parents are still alive and he had to work his way up from the ground. Gatsby thinks he is some sort of cool kid because he tells everyone he inherited his wealth and that he is all by his lonesome. “ ‘ it took me just three years to earn the money that bought it (the house).’ ‘I thought you inherited your money.’”(90) Another time where Nick caught Gatsby's story lacking, he breaks that he didn’t inherit his money but then says “ ‘I did old sport,” he said automatically, ‘but I lost most of it in the great panic—of the war’”(90). Piling lies on top of lies in order to convince Nick he did not lie the first time but then try and prove more that he is not a bad guy and did not lie to his friend. But even in the event that Nick wanted to stop being friends with Gatsby he already reunited Gatsby with Daisy so Gatsby would not need to use Nick