morality, much of which encouraged dishonesty, including drinking in backlash against prohibition laws. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, characters constantly lie to or outright deceive each other. The narrator, Nick Carraway, extols his own honesty, but as his audience we see how he repeatedly withholds information from his peers in important scenarios. Jay Gatsby, the man Nick follows in the story, much more blatantly lies to others about his rise to fame, making…
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