Lies In The Great Gatsby

In Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby lives a life of lies and creates an entire fake persona in order to live up to the standards that Daisy, the love of his life, has set for him. James Gatz, a poor farm boy, transforms himself into something he is not, Jay Gatsby, a rich, powerful man, and will do anything to get there. Blinded by his love for Daisy, Jay Gatsby deceives everyone to believe he is a good man who inherited his wealth. In actuality, Gatsby’s entire character is a lie, proving Gatsby cannot come to terms with his past, allowing Fitzgerald to reveal the immorality connected to achieving dreams.

Jay Gatsby creates an entirely false image of himself and lets others believe that he is someone else, to impress the girl he loves. He makes himself very wealthy, but tells everyone that he is “the son of some wealthy people in the Midwest - all dead now.” This insinuates that he inherited the money. This lie truly falls apart when Gatsby’s father shows up to his funeral at the end of the novel. Gatsby deceives everyone into thinking he was a sincerely wealthy man when in reality he obtained

It brings in the idea of immorality and how people deceive themselves to believe what they are doing is appropriate. In Jay Gatsby’s case, his love for Daisy made him feel that doing illegal jobs, such as bootlegging were justifiable, all that mattered was Daisy. Fitzgerald was trying to display how the American Dream was not as perfect as it seems. People tricked others into thinking that they had achieved this dream, that was unattainable. Fitzgerald is showing us how deceptive the American Dream is, and how people will do all this bad to achieve something that they cannot even get. No matter how well-off you are, you will always want more, so you can never reach this