Who Is Jay Gatsby A Liar

It might be safe to say that at one point or another, most people run into or befriend a person who is mysterious and maybe viewed as a liar because of their outrageous stories that they tell. Often times, the mysterious person will foreshadow an event in everyday conversation, which can leave a taste of uncertainty in the mouth of the befriender. The person will vaguely leave the event in question without further expanding it, then proceed to tell another outrageous tall tale. In this case, Gatsby is the mysterious friend. Gatsby says, “you see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.” (Fitzgerald 67) The sad thing that is referenced here is left vague and is said …show more content…
Most Americans in the 1920’s thought of this as their American dream and this is what they were striving for. They wanted to be great, no matter how they grew up or whether or not they were born into wealth or not. This dream was not Jimmy Gatz, later on known as Jay Gatsby’s dream. All he wanted in this life was to win his old love, Daisy back. He tries to be noticed by turning himself into, ‘the Great Gatsby.’ Many people might wonder, well what makes him so great? Perhaps it was how heavily enigmatic he was. This man, who no one quite knows the accurate background of, throws weekly lavish parties and people from all over come. At these parties, Gatsby is rarely, if ever, seen and makes no friends at his own shindigs. People can’t seem to figure out the reason why he is throwing the parties, and make up various rumors about him as the story goes on. Some of these rumors include that Gatsby: “is a bootlegger and killed a man” (Fitzgerald 61) and apparently, he was also “a German spy during the war.” (Fitzgerald 44) With all the speculating that is done around Gatsby, it’s no wonder he is so alluring and captivating. After the narrator, Nick Carraway gets to know Gatsby a bit more, he realizes that he doesn’t quite fit in with the rich crowd that he seems to thrust his way into. He seems to be just a show, a sort of act. In fact, he is just a poor boy from the Midwest who self-proclaimed himself ‘The Great Gatsby.” At the end of the novel, Tom Buchanan, which is the woman who Gatsby wants to win backs husband, calls Gatsby out on some of his outrageous stories. Gatsby stumbles and tries to talk his way out of it, but they both end up getting mad and having to leave in the end. The readers have to take the narrator’s word for Gatsby being trustworthy and let his opinion pierce through the doubt, considering he is one of the few people that actually know