Great_Gatsby

Great Gatsby In Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates the theme, “Outward appearances can be deceiving.” This theme is shown in a few parts of the book. These outward appearances are not only found in people, but in the geographical areas of the New York area. The first deceiving outward appearance is that of Daisy. At first, we are lead to believe that she is a very happy person, as Gatsby’s love. But she is not, she is a rather tragic and selfish person. We see this when she uses Gatsby as a way to go to parties and look popular, while she is really more attracted to Tom. And in the end of the story, she takes off with Tom and doesn’t leave a trace to where they are going. There is a big irony in this. We see that Gatsby is pursuing the woman he loves. But Daisy ends up inadvertently causing Gatsbys death by killing Myrtle in the car accident, which set Wilson into a psychotic mood. Gatsby himself has an outside appearance great, gatsby, deceiving, outward, daisy, theme, story, gatsby, fitzgerald, book, appearances, appearance, tom, people, new, york, loves, first, cities, york, woman, wilson, while, wealthy, cities, wealthy, way, very, valley, understood, trying, tragic, trace, torn, woman, theme, book, these, area, that, takes, support, support, small, set, selfish, person, seen, really, realize, reader, rather, pursuing, pulled, poverty, popular