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- On page 65 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby is explaining to Nick Carraway that he is a truthful man while driving to lunch. "'I'll tell you God's truth.' His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by" Is what Nick recalls about Gatsby's claim. Then Gatsby says "I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle-West -all dead now." I think it's strange that Gatsby said "Middle-West" instead of Mid-West which could be from the character's elite dialect. In addition, the motif of Catholicism appears in this interaction which foreshadows that some form of "divine retribution" will be inflicted onto Gatsby.
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- Themes of Catholicism, elitism and truth show up on Page 65. Specifically, before this page Nick claims that he is the "most honest person he knows" which clashes with Gatsby's proclaimed truthfulness. All of the characters blur the lines between reality and fiction all the time so it's hard to tell if anyone in the text is moral. In addition, there is a major undercurrent of religion with most of the dialogue and Nick's descriptions about Jay Gatsby and the Valley of Ashes.
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