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All we do know is that he has a big house and holds many parties which could give the first impression to the reader that Gatsby is a sociable happy man who shares his large house and nice food with others. In the beginning of the novel we know hardly anything of who Gatsby is or what he does, and this technqiue used by Fitzgerald creates a mystery on the surface as to what Gatsby does and who he really is. Then theres the character of Gatsby himself. Tom Buchanan for example is a man who presents himself as being powerful and an overall great man but we learn as the novel goes on that he is unfaithful, violent and quite racist, and also holds strong views against certain people or things. There are many characters Fitzgerald uses to develop this idea of having to look deeper into an individual to move away the mist and fog of their outer persona and realise what their actual realistic personaility is like. Scott Fitzgerald explores the dominant theme of 'Appearance Vs Reality' wihtin his marvellous creation, The Great Gatsby.įitzgerald smartly, in my opinion, egages his reader by manipulating this idea of what is real and what is an illusion on the surface.