Examples Of Honesty In The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the book follows a tale of Nick Carraway as he narrates his meeting Gatsby and the events that follow. Nick does not demonstrate honesty by delivering claims appropriate to the situation and stating what everyone is thinking based on his own biased thoughts, although he considers himself honest because he believes his purpose is to serve as a narrator of “justice” from his perspective. Nick was on trial throughout the book, putting his honesty to the test; when Tom invited him to go and meet his mistress, his response showed where his morals lied; when he met Gatsby his morality was put to the test of how he would use his knowledge of Tom’s endeavors. It all tied into the fact that even though Nick
He is from the upper Midwest and has supposedly been raised on stereotypical American Dream values, which is common at the time. He is a little more complex than that, however. His family, although descended from the "Dukes of Buccleuch," really started when Nick's grandfather's brother came to the U.S. in 1851. By the time the story takes place, the Carraways have only been in this country for a little over seventy years. In addition, the family patriarch didn't show those American Dream values, I mentioned earlier, Nick sees in himself. When the civil war began, Nick's relative "sent a substitute" to fight for him, while he started the family business. From this information I am able to infer that the Carraway’s are a wealthy family and suggests that the early Carraways were more tied to commerce than justice. Nick's relative apparently doesn't have any qualms about sending a poorer man off to be killed in his stead. Given this background, it is interesting that Nick would come to be regarded as a level-headed and caring man, enough of a dreamer to set goals, but practical enough to know when to abandon his dreams this unique trait that he has is what makes him