In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel, The Great Gatsby, he provides ample critical commentary on the title of the novel while portraying the true sense of not only the title through irony, but Jay Gatbsy too. In one sense, the title of the novel is ironic; the title character is neither “great” nor named Gatsby. As the party continues, Tom would mention the illicit activities that he was hidden from by Gatsby; once heard by Jay Gatbsy, he would return the comment with a glare as if, “he had ‘killed a man’" (Fitzgerald 134). Now in the face of Tom's righteous condemnation Gatsby's criminal soul briefly shows through his glitzy social veneer. As another extravagant party from Gatsby begins, people start to question how they appeared there, though