In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, a novel set in the Roaring Twenties, describing a flamboyant and immortal 1920s society in where the economy prospers and prohibition leads to organized crime. Readers follow the journey of a young man named Jay Gatsby, a quirky and mysterious neighbor of the narrator, Nick Carraway. As the novel evolves, Nick tells readers of his discoveries about Gatsby's past and his love for Daisy, Nick's married cousin. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald develops the theme of conflict that results from keeping secrets instead of telling the truth using the three characters: Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and Jay Gatsby (James Gats). The first individual that Fitzgerald uses as an example of being deceitful is Tom Buchanan. Readers see an indication of his deceitfulness from the beginning of the narrative when Jordan Baker tells Nick about Tom having an affair with another woman, “Because–…Tom has another woman in New York” (Fitzgerald , 19). This information is later established when Nick and Tom travel to New York but stop in the Valley of Ashes due to Tom's insistence, "Let's get down here... I want you to meet my girl" (Fitzgerald, 28). During the party in New York, readers learn that to keep Myrtle as his lover Tom concocts a lie about Daisy's religion from Catherine: “It's really his wife who keeps them apart. She is Catholic and they don't believe in divorce” (Fitzgerald, 38 years old). Although Daisy may suspect or have been informed by others, Tom does not tell Daisy about his affair or the reason behind it. When Gatsby confronts him about his relationship with Daisy, however, he says, “The trouble is that sometimes she gets silly ideas in her head and doesn't know… middle of paper… it is shown that Gatsby is ready to do everything in his power to gain Daisy's adoration again, even letting her get away with murder and he will blindly go to prison for her. This, however, only leads to his ultimate downfall, as he is killed by her husband by Myrtle, Wilson. He may be a liar, but readers empathize with him as his only fault for being dishonest is his love for Daisy and being so blind to see that she is not worthy of that adoration , one is able to tell a lie from the liar, expression, word or movement, but not the consequences of the secrets they keep. Fitzgerald develops the premise of lies, deception and secrets through Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby (James Gats) and reshapes the fall of the Roaring Twenties in a deft way by inviting us on the journey of The Great Gatsby's liveliness. and his silly young love narrative.