Lies and Deceit in The Great Gatsby :: Great Gatsby Essays

Lies and Deceit in The Great Gatsby             In the world people try to hide things from each other but one way or another they find out what they are hiding. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the secrecy and deceit salutary by Jay, Daisy, and Myrtle leads to inevitable tragedy when the truths are revealed.             Jay failed to realize that if you tell a lie most of the time they tend to come to a travail and burst. For example, My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations.....pg.2 why did he have to lie when he knew that if they really got to do him they would find out the truth. Jay gave everyone the impression that he was this kind of rich-snobbish guy. Who cognizes why. It is not always good to lie. In Jays case when it came down to them finding out the truth they didnt know whether he was telling the truth or lyin g. So it was hard for them to believe what he was saying.             Daisy was another who would lie because she thought it would keep happiness. The way she lied was incompatible from Jay. She lied to keep the person she thought was the love of her life, tom turkey happy. Daisys relationship with TOm was quite unusual. Tom was having an affair with Myrtle and Daisy really wanted to be with Tom, but not really because she only did it because she thought she had to. Daisy was really in love with Jay but because she felt like she had to be in love with Tom she would make up lies to keep them together. Tom pretty much felt the same way or he thought Daisy really liked him so he didnt want to break her heart. But for them it didnt really work out well. If they would of told each other their feelings and wouldnt of held them back from each other they could of discussed their personnal situations and they might of had a polished seper ation. But since they chose to keep things back from each other and lie to each other everything went terrible. For instance when the story about Jay and