Nick's Honesty In The Great Gatsby

Honest Nick Is it truly possible that a person can be honest? Can they really put aside everything to tell the truth? In Nick's case this is true. He does it throughout the entire novel. He tells things as they are, he doesn't sugar coat them and he doesn't make things to be worse than they really are, he is blunt and tells the truth. He believes he is so honest because of how he was raised and how he's always been. Even when it comes to his friends like Gatsby, he tells how he is, no matter good or bad, it is still the truth. There is several reasons to why Nick likes Gatsby, but the number one thing to why Nick likes Gatsby is because Nick sees something in him that he doesn't see in anyone else. He sees hope, hope in Gatsby, Gatsby's hope
The Valley of Ashes is just as he described, every area and house he described was the truth. Nick has been honest for a long time, the start of Nick being truly honest most likely happened when his dad told him “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had”. This is why nick believes he is so honest, he believes in his dad so he believes in what his dad has told him and he follows it. Another reason to believe Nick is honest is to look at his relationships with people. He doesn't really have any bad ones, this is because he never says anything bad or untrue about a person. But like all things, things change. For 99 percent of this novel, he is honest, but towards the end, he begins to shift. He is not is dishonest, but he is not truly honest. It is when everything reaches a breaking point, he tells it like it is, but you can't help but believe that there is something missing, still this does not mean that Nick is dishonest, it only means he may or may not have left some things out. While it maybe shady, is it being dishonest? Everything he said still was the truth, it all happened, leaving something out is not a lie, its just leaving something out, Still an honest person though, he doesn't hold back on the truth, even at the very end when he's calling them all out for not being there for Gatsby's funeral, he tells what they did, and he is honest about it. So is it possible? Is it truly possible that Nick was honest? Can a person be truly honest? It is, Nick was truly honest, throughout all of this. To be truly honest, there is only one thing that you cannot break, and that is to not lie, at all. Never did Nick lie in this novel. He told things as they were, he didn't sugar coat them, he didn't make a person to be worse than they actually were, he did what you can only accept from a truly person and that is to not lie, he did just that. Nick is an