The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about corruption and reveals the dishonesty of the people of the time. People like Jordan Baker, Meyer Wolfsheim, and Tom Buchanan show their deceitful ways in this novel. First of all, Jordan Baker, a young golf champion, reveals her corrupt ways when Nick recalls that “at her first big golf tournament there was a row that almost reached the newspapers, insinuating that she had moved the ball from a bad position in the field. semi-final” (57). When this story almost reached the newspapers, it was because "it had reached the proportions of a scandal" (57). This is just the story if it was important enough to reach the paper and she would have been disqualified. However, the scandal “died away” (57) and the caddy “withdrew his statement, and the only other witness admitted that perhaps he had been wrong” (57). How both witnesses change their minds so suddenly is suspicious. Both could have easily been purchased by Jordan or his wealthy family. Furthermore, Jordan once again shows his deceptive side when ...