What Is Gatsby Dishonest

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The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F Scott Fitzgerald. Nick is the narrator he was going out with Jordan Baker. Nick has cousin named Daisy who is married to Tom. Gatsby lived next to Nick and loved Daisy. Nicks last words to Gatsby before he died was “they’re a rotten crowd... you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together” (Fitzgerald 162). He means that Gatsby was a lot better that Tom, Daisy, and Jordan.
Gatsby is better that Jordan because she is dishonest. “She left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it” (Fitzgerald 62). Once at a golf tournament she “moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round” (Fitzgerald 62). Gatsby was dishonest when he said he was an Oxford man when all he really did

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