Examples Of Infidelity In The Great Gatsby

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In the 1920’s the morality of the upper class was altered, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows this in his novel The Great Gatsby. Dishonesty and infidelity are two of the moralities that were altered. Jordan Baker and Tom Buchanan display how dishonesty and infidelity became the new morality of the upper class.

In the upper class very few were honest with one another, Jordan Baker is an example of a dishonest person. Nick Carraway describes Jordan Baker as “quote pg.58” he also says that “quote pg. 58”. Nick describes a time when she was a golf champion, she won the golf championship by moving her ball to a better place. Jordan, an upper class woman, is classified as dishonest. Nick, who is a middle class man, does not respect that she lied to

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