The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerlad, an American classic and a wonderful work reminiscent of the opera, was written in 1925 and provides an extremely critical and intuitive vision of takeover of the nouveau riche Americans took place in the 1920s. In “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald, two important male figures, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway, are at odds with each other. Jay Gastby, the hero of romance and narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, is the other form of hero of The Great Gatsby, whose nostalgic knowledge is advanced.F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates Nick Carrway as a moralistic figure through a novel introduced with lies and deception. Fitzgerald applies various themes throughout the book, being unique, truth versus lies, within the novel virtually all of the main characters are dishonest towards others or themselves, which reveals each character's true self to the reader. Jay Gatsby, the protagonist, invents a story about his life by piecing together aspects of information that seem intriguing and somewhat believable. Through the examination of characters, Fitzgerald depicts Nick Carraway as an honest man and Jay Gatsby as a dishonest man. Nick prides himself on his honesty: "Everyone suspects that he possesses at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people I have ever known." (Fitzgerald 59). He is extremely sincere, direct and refrains from telling lies and consequently his narrative value relies on this. However, Nick's honesty seems to be practically insignificant compared to himself and others; his personality was purely “an uninterrupted series of successful gestures” (Fitzgerald 8) and yet “there was something wonderful about him, a certain height… in the center of the paper… an interest in which everyone has a little ' of vague at the very end.”(fitzgerald 156) “We were close friends,” (fitzgerald 150) Nick informs Gatsby's father. Nick will return to the West, at first no longer waiting for "privileged glimpses into the human heart", although ready to receive the expansion of his compassion that his events have caused. The quality of The Great Gatsby's magnificence lies primarily in the form it manipulates to capture the conjuncture of change, in the growth of Western sensibility, during the period in which new perspectives or heroic attitudes were being formed. Nick is the hero with whom the reader, regardless of disposition, remarkably identifies. Gatsby is overly pretentious and surprising. Although Nick's sentimental education foreshadows Gatsby's brilliant career.