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Truth in The Great Gatsby

 

      The Golden Age, a time when money was abundant.  Wealthy

family's always demanded to impress others rather than living their own

life.   How did wealth seem to develop with scandals and how would dreams

contribute to destiny?  In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby"

Nick Carraway's great American dream was to controlled the truth in which

he lives his life.

 

 

      Money is a motivating force for almost everyone, but not everyone

loses sight of who they are.  Gatsby's house and parties were a part of the

shows he wanted to impress Daisy with.   Daisy, confused by Gatsby's money

and wealth tried drawing away from her husband Tom when she saw financial

security with Gatsby.  Although Nick was tempted to be successful and

wealthy he viewed  ethics and even his own morals to be additionally

significant.

 

 

      Most of the Characters in the Great Gatsby  lived so

materialistically that their own values and ethics suffered and really

never showed.  Nick's friends in the novel illustrated ignorant fools, Tom

was careless.  Tom was ignorant to the fact that cheating on a spouse was

and still is looked down upon.  Nick as the Conventionalist1  he is,

displayed the character who looked down upon this affair.  He didn't agree

with the fact that his friend Tom could love his wife while he lusted some

other woman.  Nicks beliefs were never similar to Tom's, and later he

confronted Tom telling his disapproval of his actions.  Tom, Daisy, and

Jordan showed no affection or remorse after the death of both Gatsby and

Myrtle. Nick percepted that his  friends convinced themselves with their

own lies that nothing at all actually happened.

 

 

      Even when the story focused on Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby's

relationship, Nick's love with his mistress Jordan Baker grew evident.

Nick understood that he had noticed the little things in her like "when

that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared

on her upper lip."  Nick gave a fault that Jordan along with Tom is also

careless.  He accepted that Jordan was also a liar but knew dishonesty in

women was never to blame.  After sometime did he give this idea more

thought, the relationship between him and Jordan was judged upon whether

she stood up to his own virtues.

 

 

      With all the different relationships one genuine stood out from the

others between Nick and his good friend Jay Gatsby.  At first Nick did not

understand nor agree with Jay's method of building his own dream.  Nick had

never given thought, and quickly grew to love Gatsby's optimism of trying

to recreate what had already happened in the past.  Nick discovered that

Gatsby's idea of the future that receded year after year was nothing else

but the absolute truth.

 

 

      Most importantly majority of the readers of "the Great Gatsby"

forget that through Nicks eyes and ears are how we form our opinions of

other characters.  It is also that we believe his story, even how he

describes himself.  Nick describes his cardinal virtue that he is "one of

the few honest people" he has ever known."  One of the things that really

matters to Nick is that his life and dream ,only to be in truth, seems so

simple but is actually impossibly complex.



 

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