Gatsby makes up these lies in order for him to be perceived as a different person then he really is. He doesn’t want people to know that he was once poor and had nothing because then people will judge him for how he lived when he was younger. Gatsby is afraid of people having trouble with him so therefore he makes up lies and then has some sort of support that he isn’t lying. He is trying to keep his real identity away from the surface. The reason Nick doesn’t tell us the truth about James Gatz until now because he didn’t want us to think that Gatsby was a liar. If Nick would have came out and told us that Gatsby was a big fat liar and bent the truth in order to make himself look smarter and better then people wouldn’t like him when we read the book. The reader first to learn about Gatsby before he can be judged and once we know a little bit about Gatsby Nick decides to tell us. In order for us to have our own opinion and why we think Gatsby is lying we need to know about him a little more instead of receiving all the information earlier in the novel. Nick knows the truth about Gatsby while Gatsby is trying to keep his true self from reaching the surface. They way we are suppose to perceive Gatsby has now been changed because of what Nick has told us.
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