Gatsby's Love Life in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Gatsby exemplifies an individual who can not always get what he or she yearns for. He possesses more than millions of people have combined, yet is still not satisfied. There is only one thing that Gatsby is destined to have, and that is Daisy Buchanan’s unconditional love. Hence by the name, she is married to another man: Tom Buchanan. The madness begins before Daisy gets married when she shares a kiss of a lifetime with James Gatz. Gatsby allows himself to fall in love with her, and from that moment on, all of his life decisions and daily problems are stimulated by Daisy, and framed around her life. Some may consider Gatsby to be an extreme stalker or nutcase, but in reality Gatsby simply has faith in

Gatsby also experienced the feeling of embarrassment when he revealed to Tom that Daisy loved him instead, but as Tom revealed he knew a lot about Gatsby’s criminal underworld businesses it lead to him getting embarrassed and Daisy getting too excited and his false persona to be shattered in their eyes, “It passed , and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made, but with every word she was drawing further and further into herself.”(134) This shows us that Gatsby loved Daisy and was willing to do anything to reach

All in all, as presented through this work, Gatsby was indeed in love with Daisy for the most part, in the beginning of their relationship, but it all change when Gatsby lost Daisy and so he let himself believed that his past was the one to blame for this circumstances. It is after this, that Gatsby became rather obsessed with the idea of Daisy and having a lovely future with her, because having her meant having it all: stability, confidence, love, happiness and so on. Also, it meant that he had succeeded in life as a whole. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Chapter 9) All his life, Gatsby intended to escape

Daisy also has her problems with the definition of True Love. Daisy thinks she is in love with Gatsby, but in actuality she is far from being truly in love with him. They knew each other when they were younger, but Daisy, although she had strong feelings for him, let her family’s expectations keep them apart. Because Gatsby did not come from money and was merely an enlisted soldier he was not fit for Daisy who came from an upper class family. This cannot be true love because true love comes naturally and above all other things and nothing should ever

Jay gatsby is a man who no one really knows personally so when Gatsby starts to open up and talk to him Nick does not really know if he should believe what he is saying. When Gatsby starts to tell Nick about his love for daisy and how he wants to be married to her again Nick tries to make it easier for them to get together. Gatsby has been trying to show Daisy how much he loves her but Daisy just is not sure that she loves him the same way she used to when they first met. Jay Gatsby did some things that could get him in trouble to live a life that most people wanted to live. Although Jay Gatsby obtained all the money he ever needed, he never reached his goal of having daisy as his own.

Qualities like absolute moral perfection are even less attainable than world peace, and they have no place in quality literature. No one relates to the main character that never lets his emotions get the better of him once in a while. Truly powerful characters require at least some degree of moral ambiguity. Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby engages in illegal liquor sales and business with the man who rigged the World Series, which combine with his purest of intentions and virtually universal kindness to create some definitely ambiguous morals. Due to that ambiguity, Gatsby’s character remains imperfect and one whom readers can entirely relate to, while promoting the prominent theme in the novel of the American Dream’s

Despite Daisy being a dislikeable character, there are some instances in which the reader feels sympathetic towards her. A big factor is the affair that Tom has with Myrtle. Daisy knows that what her husband is doing, but she still stays with him for the fact that they have a daughter together and for financial support. When Nick first sees Daisy's daughter, she says, "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." By this she means that if her daughter is in the same position she is in her marriage, she won't know of the affair that her husband might have. The reader feels bad for Daisy because she is not being treated the way a wife is supposed to be treated. That is why she is yearning for love, and Gatsby was there to give it to her. Another time is at the hotel suite scene. She doesn't know who to choose from-Tom or Gatsby. She's torn between two lovers, and both of them have their own reasons for loving her, and why she should choose them. Gatsby has a lot to offer her, and loves her for who she is. He succeeded in life just to be with her. Although Tom is having an affair, he questions her about their love, and that Gatsby cannot take his place.

Does Gatsby love Daisy, or does he love the lifestyle she represents? Is she only his ticket to the upper classes? If so, does Gatsby realize this?

Courtly love—an expression of passion, a token of intimacy, and a vibrant theme which permeates the spirit of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Energetic and enterprising, young James Gatz ascends the social ladder to become a grossly successful and affluent businessman, all driven by a single purpose: to win the beautiful Daisy’s heart. Gatsby plays his role as Daisy’s courtly lover by his ambitions to satisfy his sincere, undying ardor and to prove his commitment to Daisy’s wellbeing.

Firstly, Gatsby’s love for Daisy is genuine and authentic. For example, when Daisy kills Myrtle while driving Gatsby’s car, Gatsby insists on taking the blame to protect her. When Nick asks Gatsby if Daisy was driving the car, Gatsby replies “Yes [...] but of course I’ll say I was” (Fitzgerald 143). Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy is so extreme that he is willing to take the blame for a crime that wasn’t his fault to protect her.

     This brings about another face of the argument: does this apply to Daisy as well? Daisy had been pressured to reject Jay Gatsby back during the war since he was a soldier, and short of money. Daisy came from old money, and didn’t see Gatsby as a suitable mate for her solely on his monetary status. But now that Gatsby’s ‘all grown up’ and rich, Daisy’s suddenly in love again.

Nobody can disagree that the romance between Gatsby and Daisy was, at one time, extremely real and very passionate. In fact, just look at this quote from when Daisy rekindled her relationship with Gatsby, "They were sitting at either end of the couch, looking at each other as if some question had been asked, or was in the air, and every vestige of embarrassment was gone. Daisy’s face was smeared with tears, and when I came in she jumped up and began wiping at it with her handkerchief before a mirror. But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room." This is one of the lighter, more positive moments in the story, for this surprise reunion started

One question to be asked about Gatsby is, was he a stalker or a lover towards Daisy? This question has a different answer for everyone. One may say that Gatsby is a stalker, but another might say he is Daisy’s lover. He looks like a stalker because he moved to the house that he lives in just to be living near Daisy. Another weird thing that he does is, he reaches out towards Daisy’s house. He would reach out in hope that he could be something with Daisy again. To some people this seems very stalkerish. After Daisy had ran over Murtle in Gatsbys car, Nick is telling Gatsby that he should leave town. then

Gatsby expects Daisy to lie about the way she feels or the way she felt in the past. In chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby it is shown how Gatsby expects so much from Daisy , but he ends up getting disappointed when she yells out the truth. “ Oh you want to much! She yelled to Gatsby . I love you now - isn't that enough?” (Fitzgerald 132) Gatsby wasn't fully satisfied with Daisy loving him at the moment . He wanted her to love him and only him and never anyone else. Further research supports this claim . “ he feels physically assaulted by the idea that she could have loved tom as well as himself.”(Parkinson) This shows how Gatsby could never be satisfied with the thought of Daisy loving another man and also with loving him.

Nick’s love for Gatsby became more and more apparent throughout the novel. Gatsby was an: "extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I[Nick] have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I[he] shall ever find again".(2) Gatsby aspired for something and someone, which gave him a depth to him that no other character Nick met throughout the novel had. He had loved Daisy from the moment they met, and from then on, dedicated his life to winning her back, after he had lost her when he went off to war. He weaved his endless love for her, into his vision of the american dream and decided form that moment on see that dream out in order to win Daisy back. In the 1920's many