Dishonesty may usually come from good intentions, but the longer the charade is played out, the bigger the lies begin to trickle down until you're ultimately enveloped in nothing but fiction. Conversely, Nick Carraway, the composed narrator of The Great Gatsby, confidently states that he is the most honest person he knows, the result of being surrounded by toxic characters dragging him around into their issues. For example, Nick's immensely wealthy cousin-in-law, Tom Buchanan, is an arrogant, judgmental, hypocritical businessman who's having an affair with a younger woman also cheating on her partner. Additionally, Nick's captivating friend of a relative, Jordan Baker, is a detached, manipulative "golf-champion" who's unconditionally careless
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While Nick is having dinner with his cousin Daisy, whom he hasn’t seen in many years, her friend lets him in on Tom’s affair, hesitantly saying, “Tom’s got some woman in New York.” Nick stays true to his father’s words to not express criticism for a side he isn’t familiar with. This is the first glimpse we get of the contrast between the honesty of Nick and the insincerity of the individuals he meets. Soon after, Tom, in a sense to allay tension off himself, corroborates to Nick, “That’s right! We heard you were engaged.” This sudden outburst abruptly muddles Nick, as he doesn’t apprehend why gossip of his fairly mundane life would circulate. Nick asides that something was making Tom “nibble at the edge of stale ideas,” perhaps that he is apprehensive of his marital status. An illustration of this is created when Myrtle, Tom’s other paramour, derides him by repeatedly shouting Daisy’s name, but is then shortly interrupted after Tom strikes her front. Tom doesn’t view Myrtle in the same light as Daisy, denying her the right to acknowledge his wife’s name because she’s only a decoration for him; a way to feel superior by presenting the fact that he can do anything and slip away with it, even abusing multiple partners at
While Nick is having dinner with his cousin Daisy, whom he hasn’t seen in many years, her friend lets him in on Tom’s affair, hesitantly saying, “Tom’s got some woman in New York.” Nick stays true to his father’s words to not express criticism for a side he isn’t familiar with. This is the first glimpse we get of the contrast between the honesty of Nick and the insincerity of the individuals he meets. Soon after, Tom, in a sense to allay tension off himself, corroborates to Nick, “That’s right! We heard you were engaged.” This sudden outburst abruptly muddles Nick, as he doesn’t apprehend why gossip of his fairly mundane life would circulate. Nick asides that something was making Tom “nibble at the edge of stale ideas,” perhaps that he is apprehensive of his marital status. An illustration of this is created when Myrtle, Tom’s other paramour, derides him by repeatedly shouting Daisy’s name, but is then shortly interrupted after Tom strikes her front. Tom doesn’t view Myrtle in the same light as Daisy, denying her the right to acknowledge his wife’s name because she’s only a decoration for him; a way to feel superior by presenting the fact that he can do anything and slip away with it, even abusing multiple partners at