Essay Archive - The Great Gatsby: Tragedy From Lies
The Great Gatsby: Tragedy From Lies
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 practiced 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 boil and burst. For example, "My family have been prominent,
well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations.....
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