Dishonesty is Gossip.

When I think of dishonestly, the thing that first pops into my head is gossip. You know gossip, like the latest, greatest news that everyone in the entire school will know about by lunch time. Gossip is the story that happened one way and is told differently each time it comes out of the next person's glossy lips. Gossip is the relationship that just started, or the fight that happened at the party, or the 5 year friendship that just got blown up by one hot, single guy. In the world we live in, gossip is pleasure, which isn't too far from the story line of The Importance Of Being Ernest. Wilde shows the dishonestly of all society's in this novel through his very dishonest characters. The main character I think of lying the most is Algernon. He makes up a completely different person so he can go out and live this single life and party. But Jack is in the same boat, because he has his fake brother named Earnest who he uses to do the same exact thing. That in my eyes is true gossip, because they both have the same huge secrets that every normal person would love to know. And that secret gets them in quite a situation later in the novel.
Gossip is being creative. Gossip is changing whatever you are telling to make it crazier. Gossip is like the children game telephone. Gossip is feeling the power of knowing the secret. Earnest is telling the truth. Earnest is being serious. Earnest is important. Wilde uses his satirical writing to add humor to the play. He writes with his past experiences and makes fun of the things he wants too. The satire that I noticed the most was the satire of marriage. Through his characters, Wilde is trying to tell the world how bad marriage really is. And out of the three couples in love, you see his irony and humor in the novel.