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Two faced liars come to Nick and tell him their secrets, but when everyone else asks them they make up stories and don’t tell the exact story. For example, Nick says on the first page that he is sick of everyone telling him secrets, and those people most likely don’t tell everyone else the full story. This can be seen in the quotation "The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild,  unknown men."- page 1. This quotation shows how people tell Nick secrets that he doesn't want to hear, but he doesn't judge them for it because of the lesson his father taught him. This is relevant because this sparks Nick’s intrigue in Gatsby. Gatsby doesn’t walk up to Nick and lie to him, and tell him fake stories. This is relevant because it builds up to why Nick was so intrigued in Gatsby. This is because Gatsby is so hopeful in the future and doesn’t do any of these absurd lies that everyone else is telling him. 

• Tom spread a lie to everyone at the party (Catherine inadvertently spreads the lie since Tom told it to her and she repeats it) and tells them that he is still married to Daisy and isn’t getting a divorce because she is a Catholic and doesn’t believe in divorce. However, Nick says that Daisy isn’t a Catholic at all, so she does believe in divorce. The real reason why Tom doesn’t get a divorce with Daisy is because he wants to live a split life with two women at the same time. Another example of this could be when Daisy lied to Tom and told him she was talking to Nick about race, and that sort of resonates with Tom, since he is a racist, and it gets her out of the situation she was in, where Tom was sort of investigating what she was talking about. This was seen in the quotation ""It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce."- Chapter Two, Page 33. Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie." This is also relevant because it sort of explains the lifestyle that people were living in back in the time period that the book was created, or the setting of the book. 

• Everyone at Gatsby's party is spreading rumors about him being a murderer, a German spy, or that he has French relatives that died, giving him a lot of money. This can be seen in the quotation ""Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once," and this quotation shows how people were spreading incorrect gossip about Gatsby.- Chapter four, page 44. This is relevant because it shows how wild and free the lifestyle of the 1920's was, because people spread gossip without a care in the world, not worrying about ruining Gatsby's career, they only cared about partying. 

• Myrtle asks her husband to drag a couple chairs over for Nick and Tom to sit down, but she didn’t care about sitting down one bit. She wanted to get her husband out of the way so she could arrange time to spend with Tom. As well as this, Tom says that his repairman is still working on his car, and he says this to Myrtle’s husband so that he can keep coming over to the shop to visit Myrtle. This can be seen in the quotations ""Get some chairs, why don't you, so somebody can sit down."" and ""I want to see you," said Tom intently. "Get on the next train."" These quotations can be used together to see how Myrtle had her husband get chairs so that she could talk to Tom about their affair. This half-lie is relevant because it shows how people ran around doing whatever they wanted in the 1920s, because Tom and Myrtle straight up lied to their spouses.

• Gatsby was assumed, by Jordan, to be lying to Nick when he was talking about all the things he had done in WWI, as well as about his education and his family. This is seen in the quotation "He looked at me sideways-and I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying. He hurried the phrase "educated at Oxford," or swallowed it, or choked on it,as though it had bothered him." page 65. This lie is relevant because Gatsby tells everyone this lie to maintain his reputation as a rich member of society, and he also says this to avoid suspicion about his job.

• In chapter 5 Gatsby had told everyone that he had inherited his money, What he was doing really was bootlegging money from illegal drug stores. “I thought you inherited your money.” “I did, old sport,” he said automatically, “but I lost most of it in the big panic- the panic of the war.”  Page- 90

• A half-lie in Chapter 6 can be seen when Gatsby says to Tom "I know your wife", in the quotation ""I know your wife," continued Gatsby, almost aggressively. This is a half lie because he doesn't only "know" his wife, but he wanted to get married to her five years prior. Page 94.

• Gatsby had told everyone at his party how his parents were dead. “My family all died and I came into a good deal of money.” “His voice was solemn, as if the memory of that sudden extinction of a clan still haunted him. For a moment I thought he was pulling my leg, but a glance at him convinced me otherwise.” This quote is from chapter 4. From the start we could tell it was a little fishy what he said. This was a self benefit lie because Gatsby had lied for himself to keep his reputation at stake. He didn't want anyone to know that he didn't have what he does now and that he wasn't always rich. page- 98, chapter 6. This lie is relevant because Gatsby tells everyone this lie to maintain his reputation as a rich member of society, and he also says this to avoid suspicion about his job.

• Daisy at first tells Tom that she doesn't love him in the quotation ""I never loved him," she said, with perceptible reluctance.", in chapter 7. This quotation shows how Daisy is lying because later she says that she can't say that she never loved Tom, and she ended up with Tom. Page- 109

• In Chapter 9 of the Great Gatsby Tom had lied to Nick about why Gatsby had been killed. Nick confronted Tom knowing that he had sent Wilson to kill Gatsby. He didn't literally send him and tell him to kill Gatsby, Tom had filled his head with lies and how Gatsby was fooling around with his wife and that he had hit her with his car.  "You're crazy, Nick," he said quickly. Crazy as hell. I don't know what's the matter with you." Tom," I inquired, "what did you say to Wilson that afternoon?" This is important because it tells us how Tom was lying to Nick about not knowing anything about Wilson killing Gatsby. Page- 178

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