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Gatsby's Unrequited Love

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The damage was done, effort was meaningless, inhumanity of each other was brought out, and the generation was lost. In the 1920’s; pleasure was purpose, humanity was deceased, and partying, drinking, and spending was what separated the wealthy front he poor. At the inhumane heart of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the theme of love is blind in evident through Jay Gatsby’s quest to lure Daisy back into his life. Yet through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s utilization of language and commentary, he focuses on the evolution of Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship and the unrequited love that came out of it. The evolutionary timeline of Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship begins when they first meet when Gatsby was in the military, meeting Daisy at …show more content…

Gatsby began to see the truth that lies within Daisy and instead of be taken back by the truth of her privilege that he had never experienced, he is blinded by her youth and beauty. The use of the simile in this moment, not only portrayed the beauty that Gatsby saw in Daisy, “Daisy, gleaming like silver” but what she stood for in society, higher than the struggles of the poor and higher than Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy were from two different worlds, that inevitably could never work within society but in Gatsby’s eyes, it could. When Gatsby had to leave for war, he asked Daisy to wait for him, but because of Daisy’s social class and her impatience, she decides to marry a man of power and money. On the eve of her wedding day she had gotten a letter from Gatsby—“she wouldn’t let go of the letter” and “she cried and cried” knowing she truly loved Gatsby but her family was able to convince her that this marriage was best for her. The love that Daisy had felt for Gatsby was prevalent through her emotional breakdown because of one letter, moreover, Fitzgerald utilizes a connotation when Daisy “walked out of the room, the pearls were around her neck

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