Land of the Liars
Land of the Liars America is a land of liars and fakes. I have never met anyone in this country who doesn’t lie. People lie because they want to fit in. This is an American value that F. Scott Fiztgerald noticed in the 1920’s and is still very prominent in today’s society. In The Great Gatsby , Jay Gatsby tells Nick that he is “the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West — all dead now. [He] was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all [his] ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition” (65). He also tells Nick about his time spent traveling around Europe doing rich people things. However, this is a lie. Gatsby’s parents were “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (98). He didn't go to Oxford, he went to a small Lutrheran college in southern Minnesota, and his name is even Jay Gatsby, it’s James Gatz (98). The entire book is about a man who continuously lies about his whole life to the people around him. Fitzger
