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Dishonesty In The Great Gatsby
Up until this point of the book, Nick isn't sure how he feels about Gatsby until now. Nick has finally come to the conclusion that Gatsby was one of the few honest people in his life, even though he lied about his past, Gatsby had been a genuine person. Nick is “alone” in his decision, because other than Gatsby’s father, Nick was the only friend that attended his funeral. Nick comes to the realization that Tom, Jordan, and Daisy are all self-centered and Gatsby was the only genuine person.
Dan Cody was the person who got Gatsby involved in bootlegging and other illegal sundries. As Gatsby got involved in illegal activities he was being pushed away from James Gatz and closer to Gatsby. Dan Cody represents the new and improved version of the former James Gatz, Gatsby.
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Jordan thought he was an honest man but he isn’t by leading her on and then leaving. I also see from Nick’s view that he didn't want to stay somewhere that was corrupt and dishonest.
Fitzgerald fixates on Jordan and Nick’s “bad driving” because it symbolizes the bad events that have occurred such as the Owl-eyed man crashing the car at Gatsby’s party earlier in the book and also Myrtles death, and now Nick and Jordan’s dishonesty.
The first impression I received from Tom Buchanan is that he was a very wealthy man. He still is wealthy but he is a self-centered, cheating, and cold- hearted man.
Nick describes Daisy and Tom as careless people because they obviously didn’t care what happened to Gatsby even though Daisy supposedly loved him. Daisy could have told the truth but she didn’t.
After Nick runs into Tom on the street, he refuses to shake Tom’s hand at first but then he realizes how childish he was acting and proceeds to shaking Tom’s hand. Nick describes himself as “provincial squeamishness” because he is still holding onto the past, until he decided to shake Tom’s hand and that is when he began to rid his “provincial

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