Theme Of Immorality In The Great Gatsby

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‘The Great Gatsby’ The novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’ shows the differences in types of events that occur in daily life. The two important themes of the novel are immorality and appearance v. reality. In the novel ‘The Great Gatsby,’ immorality has a huge role for example, “we haven’t met for many years,” “five years next November.” (pg.88). The long lost lovers finally meet through Nick. Daisy is seeing Gatsby behind her husbands, toms, back. However, Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, but her husband doesn’t find out that until the end of the novel. Wilson, Myrtles husband, when he found out he told Myrtle, “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool god.”(pg.160) More immorality took place in the novel…show more content…
Nick and Tom also didn’t show many true feelings. “And with his doubt, this whole statement fell to pieces, and I wondered if there wasn’t something a little sinister about him, after all.”(pg. 65) This quote was from Nick’s opinion about Gatsby. Nick is a quiet guy and for some reason ends up in the middle of the situations. Nick-“I stared at him and then at Tom, who made a paralyzed discovery less than an hour before-and it had occurred to me that there was no difference between men…”(pg.124) This quote that Nick thought was on how Tom’s face looked like when Myrtle told Tom she was leaving. Tom’s face looked in shock when Myrtle told Tom she was leaving. Tom didn’t want to ask any questions because he doesn’t want to make it obvious, in front of Wilson. The novel ‘The Great Gatsby,’ there was many themes. The main theme(s) for me was immorality and appearance vs. reality. Throughout the whole novel there was hiding true feelings, murders, affairs, and a lot of love. Towards the end there wasn’t a happy ending such as Myrtle’s and Gatsby’s death. Daisy still stayed with Tom because he knows deep inside she loves
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