Dishonesty In The Great Gatsby Analysis

Register to read the introduction… When Nick first meets her, he thinks he recognizes the name from something, but he can’t remember what. “ . . . There was a row that nearly reached the newspapers--a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round.” Jordan had cheated in her first big golf tournament, but she got away with it. It “approached the proportions of a scandal--then died away,” as Nick says. “A caddy retracted his statement, and the only other witness admitted that he might have been mistaken” (57). She was able to get away with cheating because society just brushed it off and accepted her dishonesty. Being the epitome of a liar, people still admired Miss Baker. When people admire a dishonest person, that reflects poorly upon the …show more content…
All that Gatsby’s partygoers cared about was having a good time and seeing famous people. “People were not invited--they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door” (41). The partygoers really didn’t know or care who Gatsby was, they just wanted to be entertained for free. Gatsby was even generous enough to allow people to stay at his house if they were too drunk to go home. “A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as ‘the boarder’--I doubt if he had any other home” (62-63). Klipspringer was getting taken care of by butlers and maids and living with Gatsby free of charge. When Gatsby died, and Nick tried to find people to come to his funeral, Klipspringer called the house. “Well, the fact is--the truth of the matter is that I’m staying with some people up here in Greenwich, and they rather expect me to be with them tomorrow. In fact, there’s a sort of picnic or something” (169). Nick thought Klipspringer might consider Gatsby a friend, and asked him to come to the funeral. After everything Gatsby did for Klipspringer, he couldn’t skip a silly picnic to pay his respects to Gatsby. Klipspringer is an example of the lack of values during that time period. He should have been grateful for what Gatsby gave to him, yet he couldn’t make the time for his funeral. Nick couldn’t find anyone to attend Gatsby’s funeral, which goes to show how selfish people were. The partygoers used Gatsby for his house and his things, Daisy ended up using Gatsby to end up closer than ever to Tom, and because Tom was so self-centered and irresponsible, he used Gatsby to save himself from being killed by