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Integrity In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The majority of people like to put their best foot forward, to show their strengths to the world. However, it is when this showing off turns into lying that you begin to question someone's integrity. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, when Gatsby is first spoken of, Nick says that he is everything that he hates, yet still, he is drawn to him. Nick also mentions that the book titled after him, but if Gatsby is everything he despises, why would he call him great in the title? It leaves us questioning his admirability, and thinking that the title could be sarcastic. In the beginning of the novel, Gatsby seems great, but with time we realize that in reality, it isn't so. In the beginning of the novel, our first impression of Gatsby is that has it all, a spectacular house, tons of money, and holds extravagant parties which everyone who is anyone …show more content…

Daisy means wealth and he knows that. Gatsby is not just trying to get her because he loves her, he knows that if he has Daisy, he will officially have it all. “‘Her voice is full of money’ he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it… High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl” (Fitzgerald 120). Gatsby tries to break up Daisy’s marriage because he wants to obtain that wealth. He starts a scene in a hotel room in the city when he exclaims, “‘Your wife doesn’t love you,’ said Gatsby. ‘She’s never loved you. She loves me’” (Fitzgerald 130). However, he doesn’t know if Daisy loves Tom or him, that is just what he believes and wants to be true, and everything has to go Gatsby’s way right? Because he believes that he’s better than everyone? Gatsby disregards Daisy’s feelings and treats her like an item he needs to have, and that is another reason why the title “great” doesn’t fit

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