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The American Dream during the Twenties was wealth and fame, everyone just wanted to be remembered, and the characters from the two literature pieces found different ways of trying to capture the dream that seemed so out of their reach. In The Great Gatsby, Jay throws fantastically wild, extravagant parties for the soul purpose of meeting Daisy there just once. Nick ventures east to stake a claim in the rising popularity and wealth of those in the bond business; while Roxie murders someone and then tries to get the public on her side desperately by spinning intricate lies that only produce confusion for her husband. .
The honesty or lack thereof, is staggering. Nick claims that he is the most honesty man he knows, but in reality it's Gatsby, he doesn't lie to himself, he tells the truth in the end, and he attempts to hide the truth, but when he finally confronts Daisy he changes and you see the true gentleman inside, who was waiting for love for five years, never giving up or faltering. He tells Daisy how he really feels, and doesn't hold anything back, he makes what he's feeling obvious to those around him; but all of the cheating and sneaking around counteract the little honesty the novel contains. Between the affairs of both Daisy and Tom, and the lying they do to cover it up, and the true cover up of murder, there is little to no real honesty in the book. This can be seen in Chicago too. Roxie is sleeping with another man then she finds out he was lying to her so she kills him, shots him three times. Then when she goes to trial and the media catches wind of the situation, she is spun into a whirlwind of fame and can't handle it properly, so she makes up lies , telling people that she is pregnant and that she loves Amos, her Husband, and that she didn't mean to kill him, and that he attacked her. Then you have Billy Flynn a master lie weaver. He spins lies for a living keeping women out of jail, for a hefty price.