The Importance Of Honesty In The Great Gatsby

For a person to be “great” they would have to be honorable, truthful and caring all year round. A great person would be brave and loyal to the end: their trust never wavering. Many traits of a person could be described as “great”, and in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is known to the world as a great person: in reality he is nothing close. Although his hospitality is seemly boundless, Gatsby’s naive nature and his striving for perfection prohibit him from deserving the title “Great.”

Nick takes this to heart, when he first meets Gatsby he admits that Gatsby is a likable person and is in awe of his wealth. Yet he does not yet see him as a fully developed person. It is not until the end when he learns about Gatsby’s struggles to get to the point at which he is at that he gains a sense of understanding. Yet, Nick is one of the first to notice Gatsby’s destructive nature to achieve his goal of being with Daisy. Nick also has a disdain for the ones who were born rich and did not value the privilege that they have been handed on a silver platter.

The quality of greatness plays a big part in The Great Gatsby hence the title, The Great Gatsby. Everyone perceives greatness differently, but what distinguishes perceived greatness from actual greatness? In The Great Gatsby, Nick determines that Gatsby is great, but there can be a difference between perceived greatness and actual greatness. In the story Nick sees Gatsby as great.

As Gatsby gives a tour to Nick and Daisy of his house, Nick notices changes in Gatsby’s mannerisms in response to Daisy’s reactions. Saying that “[Gatsby] revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from [Daisy’s] well-loved eyes” (91). Gatsby’s revaluation of his material wealth in response to Daisy shows that his love is embedded in his material possessions. He values only what Daisy values and Daisy tends towards expensive and extravagant things. Nick depicts Gatsby, saying that “in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real” (91).

While Nick emphasizes the importance of hard work, he also values integrity to achieve his goals. In The Great Gatsby, Nick describes himself as “one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (Gatsby 59). Compulsive liars desire to get ahead of people through their manipulative words, but Nick understands the moral perspective and sees that the only way to flourish as a person is to remain sincere.

Within a short period of time Nick finds himself essentially pledging his allegiance to Gatsby showing the start of one of the only unwavering loyalties in the novel. The exceptional part about Gatsby and Nick’s relationship is that all of the major relationships, with the exception of theirs and Myrtle and Wilson’s, were built on the opulent glamour seen throughout the book. Gatsby further proves the nature of this loyalty by offering Nick money for his help and being swiftly turned down. The foundation of loyalty was built on a mutual respect Nick himself even stated "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." speaking in essence of everyone else in the novel.

Gatsby’s dreams and aspirations in life are rather interesting and amazing as he goes about his life in the book. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald helps highlight the social, moral, and political issue that were very present during the 1920’s and today. Gatsby is the focus of the book as before the book began, he was an ex-soldier who came to wealth by some rather illegal ways. Daisy a married woman is his person of interest, who was his ex-lover 5 years before the book started. Gatsby’s actions, and words demonstrate a clear obsession with Daisy that seems to have no end.

One way that Gatsby presents a lack of truthfulness is in the background stories that he tells to everybody about him. For instance, when Gatsby is talking to Nick in the car, “I am the son of some wealthy people

In the exposition he describes that Gatsby had, “...one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across five or four times in life” (48). Nick created Gatsby as someone he can never be, someone who impresses women with just one glimpse. Nick wants to be dreamy and irresistible just like Gatsby seems to be. Other than his appearance and personality, Nick also envies Gatsby's wealth when he describes his parties with great detail, “ On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city…” (39). Nick is fascinated by Gatsby's wealth.

In the book ' ' The Great Gatsby ' ' Nick is caught up in Gatsby`s life. Either by the fact that he lives next door to him or that he is interested in Gatsby`s lifestyle. Nick has this high opinion of Gatsby in a way that his life is tangled up in Gatsby`s life. Making it hard to not be interested in Gatsby`s past and present, but its the way he makes everyone feel is why Nick has this high opinion.

Gatsby knows that Daisy is a high-class individual who cares very much about status and wealth, so his entire life has been dedicated to being the best so that she will notice him. When Daisy, Gatsby’s one desire, and Nick, Gatsby’s

The novel The Great Gatsby is written by an American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1925. This work points out the life of cast of characters living in fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on 24 September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, created three main characters- Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway and showed us his conception of America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and colour the story.

Characters throughout The Great Gatsby present themselves with mysterious and questionable morals. Affairs, dishonest morals, criminal professions, weak boundaries and hypocritical views are all examples of immorality portrayed in The Great Gatsby. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, lies and mischief fill the lives of many and significantly damage numerous relationships. First, Jay Gatsby's whole life is consumed into a massive lie. His personality traits set him apart from others and the attention he accumulates motivates him to falsely portray his life.

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.

Throughout the course of the book, Nick starts off open-minded, but gradually becomes disgusted with everyone he meets. Nick saw mostly everyone only thinking of themselves and trying to pursue "The American Dream", a staple of the 1920s. The one person Nick liked was Gatsby, because