Truth about Gats

I believe that Gatsby makes up the lie because he wants to show that he is a class man because he came from a bad family. He is also embarrassed to tell the truth. Gatsby has a big obsession with wealth and he envys Dan Cody a man he used to work for on a yacht. He doesn’t want to show or tell about his lower class identity so he tells people that he attended oxford and had wealthy parents from the Midwest, which he never did. I think Nick tells us these news at this point because all the anticipation of this Gatsby build up, and now he wants us to know about the real Gatsby.