Being a good friend sometimes means ignoring the obvious. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel set in the 1920s. It details the story of the narrator, Nick Carraway, an aspiring slave who moved from Minnesota to the West Egg section of Long Island in search of business. Nick is considered a "new money" man. He has established and now manages his own wealth. He meets a particularly mysterious man, his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Through Gatsby, he meets people from the East Egg of Long Island, who are considered to be "old money", wealth or business inherited from generation to generation. Over time, Nick and Jay become great friends. Nick helps Gatsby learn more about himself and his aspirations in life, and vice versa. However, he believes that there is a reason behind his dishonesty and that he is not a man of total fraud. Gatsby, in fact, was dishonest, both with himself and with the rest of the world. He lied to Nick and the others about his origin. His made-up story is that he comes from a wealthy family made up of people who are now deceased. He says he was educated at Oxford. He also claims to be from the Midwest and lies about his own name. He actually lives in the Midwest, but his father is alive and well. He didn't graduate from Oxford (he only attended for five months) and he comes from a poor background. His birth name is James Gatz. He is a man with a lot of money and he established his wealth illegally by selling drugs with his business partner, which explains his pseudonym. In addition to Gatsby's dishonesty toward others, he is dishonest toward himself. Gatsby fabricated a dream – a fictional reality – in his mind. He wants Nick's cousin Daisy, whom he met five years before the story begins, to marry him. However, this marriage could never take place, as Daisy is already married to a man from East Egg named Tom, with whom she has a child. Despite everything, Gatsby continues to push Daisy to break up with Tom. His dream overwhelms the harshness of his reality, thus causing Gatsby to continue to falsify reality and distort it to suit what he wants. His dishonesty is the root of his