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Truths In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Throughout The Great Gatsby, Gatsby threw extravagant parties where people could mask their true selves - although they tried to screen their truths with keen mystery it was ultimately revealed. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby probes truths from Nick, as a narrator who initially presented himself as an honest, nonjudgmental man overlooking the events unraveling in the West Egg. Furthermore, unfolding Gatsby's legitimacy to his extravagant life and lavish parties, we lead deep into the realities of the characters' connection to the theme from Nick's standpoint. Nick's judgments as well as Gatsby's profound love / desperation lead both men to have some keen mystery, revealing the theme of people not being who they’re supposed to be. Nick's judgmental attitude towards Gatsby and his self reflections take to the theme of people not always being what they’re supposed to be, thus Nick …show more content…

From Nick's view “He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and he thinks he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well loved-eyes.”(Fitzgerald 91). Nick's perspective views Gatsby's feelings of him being charmed from Daisy's thoughts on his home,as for Gatsby's reaction it gives off a sense that his home was set up in hopes of Daisy to stumble in someday. Gatsby's slight detail on how Daisy “ always has a green light that burns all night at the end of her dock”(Fitzgerald 92). Gatsby's observation of the light always being on at her dock gives off desperation as if he always peered glances over at her home in hope of her in return or a glimpse of her through her windows. Thus, Gatsby's true reasons for his extravagant lifestyle were a mask for his actual feelings for love and his desperation for Daisy and the truth of who he really

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