What Is The Great Gatsby Truthful Man

In The Great Gatsby, the titular character displays qualities that could reasonably justify him for multiple forms of judgement, both good and bad. He’s careless, optimistic, veiled by Daisy, and passionate all at once. In my personal opinion, Jay Gatsby isn’t a truthful man, that is, he masks who he really is with his gentlemanly etiquette and over-the-top parties. He is insincere about other things, such as going to Oxford and growing up rich, but I will be focusing more on the present Gatsby and how his behaviour among other things don’t accurately represent the real Gatsby. Examples can be found in when he first meets Daisy again, when Gatsby interacts with Tom at the hotel, and even during Gatsby’s funeral.

Firstly, Gatsby puts on a …show more content…
Gatsby then arrives at the door with a look of fear in his eyes. “Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.” (The Great Gatsby, pg. 70). Gatsby’s nervousness was evident to us and the narrator, yet Gatsby acts calm and gentlemanly when he suddenly is around Daisy. He even expresses his stress to us later on in the scene, proving his brave-face to be all an act. Additionally, going back to my idea of Gatsby’s prestigious veil, his leaving the kitchen and coming back when Daisy arrived means that he does not want Daisy to think that he had been waiting and waiting for her, which would imply him being lower on the social ladder than her (him waiting on her). It is as though he seeks to affirm that he is in fact near the very top of the social hierarchy and to have Daisy think equally as highly of …show more content…
Barring the reports and journalists, the absence of some people and the presence of others kind of shatter the social hierarchy that Gatsby had appeared to envision (which we could see when he was waiting for Daisy). The only ones who attend Gatsby’s funeral are Nick, Gatsby’s servants, and his father. For a man like Gatsby, with such a sophisticated character, we see an unfortunate side of humanity. Gatsby was very wealthy, put on a gentlemanly face, and had all these great parties, and yet when death comes his way everyone seems to forget it. “The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came.” (The Great Gatsby, pg. 142). I was actually able to recall an episode of SpongeBob called “Porous Pockets” in which SpongeBob becomes very wealthy, and suddenly gains all of these “friends”, who then leave him without batting an eye once he runs out of money. I believe that this illusion SpongeBob was under, in which he believed people loved him but they later turned out to be only interested in his money/parties, is the same one that Gatsby was under.

Gatsby had a suspicious amount of stress and anger coming from a character of his class. Seeing Daisy again frightened him in more ways than one, and