“A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in everything”- Dr. Farrah Gray. In Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger Holden Caulfield constantly lies to emotionally keep people away. He is mentally damaged due to the death of his younger brother a few years ago. Holden is now in a mental hospital for a reason the readers do not know. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about Jay Gatsby, who works his way up in society, bringing the American dream to life. Gatsby lies about his past to win back his ex lover, Daisy. Gatsby is obviously the biggest phony because his lies caused himself, and two other people to die, he lied about his family, and he lied about how he earned his money. In the Great Gatsby three people die because of Gatsby, including Gatsby himself. Gatsby did not personally kill Myrtle and George Wilson but him moving to New York would eventually cause their deaths. In the book on page 110 Nick asks Gatsby about who was driving when Myrtle was hit and killed. Nick says “was Daisy driving?” Gatsby then says “Yes, but of course I’ll say I was…” Gatsby lying for daisy about driving the car caused him to be killed by …show more content…
On page 51 he says “My family all died and I came into a good deal of money.” Few people believe this about him. People spread crazy rumors about how he got his money and say he is a hit man and that he was a German spy in the war. When Nick, Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, and Jordan are in the hotel room in the city on page 103 Tom says “I found out what your ‘drug-stores’ were… He and Wolfsheim brought up a lot of side-street drug- stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.” At the time alcohol was illegal, which means if gatsby was selling it he was a criminal, even though everyone but Gatsby drank alcohol, including Tom which would make him a criminal also. But all in all, Gatsby lied about his how he made his