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Truth In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is deceitful. He is deceitful when he lies about his past and his money to falsely attract Daisy’s attention. This leads to Daisy’s changed opinion of Gatsby once she learns the truth and an entangled mayhem between Gatsby, Tom and Daisy. Most importantly, in the end it ultimately leads to Gatsby’s death. When Gatsby and Daisy first meet, Gatsby lies about having money to score Daisy’s attention. As Gatsby is telling Nick his record of meeting Daisy, Nick repeats, “...but he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security, he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself” (149). Being a plain man with no money to even keep clothes on his back and thinking …show more content…

People seem to have a different story to tell about what they know of Gatsby, and none of them end up to be anywhere near the truth. Some say he went to Oxford, others say he’s killed a man, and others say he was a German spy during the war. Nobody knew anything about the real Jay Gatsby, James Gatz. Gatsby finally decides to reveal the truth of his amazing life tale, starting with that fact that his real name is James Gatz. Gatsby reports some truths behind his deceit when he talks to a reported and Nick repeats, “...His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people- his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all” (98). Stating that his parents were not in fact wealthy, but rather very poor reveals that Gatsby did not really inherit his money from his parents. In the same report, Nick repeats, “...He had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and a bed” (98). Gatsby had not been hunting and pining after jewels like he said he had been, but doing anything for basic necessities. These truths that Gatsby reveals expose some of his own lies and deceits about his life story and where he came

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