Love In The Great Gatsby

Marriage and relationships in ‘The Great Gatsby’, can be said to be portrayed in many different ways throughout the novel while developing the characters and the plot. It can also be said that the nature of the relationships are used by Fitzgerald to present a judgment on the state of the society they were happening in, New York in the 1920’s. It could also be a more general view on the morals and values of America and the way in which the society has evolved and been corrupted.

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is also someone who is blinded by his greed. “Her voice was full of money”, Gatsby says about Daisy, his love interest. In saying this, he means that she is full of wealth, status, and notoriety, all things that Gatsby craves. Gatsby is an ambitious man who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. He is a man who believes that money and possessions alone will allow him to get what he truly wants: the love of his life, Daisy. However, Gatsby is so blinded by his greed that he joins the mob to grow his fortunes and commits acts as unspeakable as murder. Daisy's discovery of this convinces her to stay with Tom, as Gatsby is likely to be arrested and therefore lose his wealth. Had Gatsby gone about his business in a moral way, he would have most likely won Daisy back. However, his ambition and desperate need for Daisy blind him and convince him that any immoral act is excusable and necessary to achieve his goals. Gatsby is a man with good intentions, but in the end, he allows his greed to get the best of

Fitzgerald represents various aspects of love and how it can be changed, manipulated, and broken, showing that through all of the themes described in this story, love is the most prominent. We see this multiple times in the book, concerning mainly the 4 main characters; Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan. They all have different perceptions of love, as we can see, from love being merely a dream, to it being a disguise to the reality of how someone feels.

There is a fine line between love and lust. If love is only a will to possess, it is not love. To love someone is to hold them dear to one's heart. In The Great Gatsby, the characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in reality, this seems to be a misconception. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of love, lust and obsession, through the character of Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and obsession with love. By the end of the novel however, Jay Gatsby is denied his "love" and suffers an untimely death. The author interconnects the relationships of the various prominent characters to support these ideas.

The Great Gatsby does not depict marriage and love in the traditional sense. Characters in this novel are married to the money and love the power it gives them. Love is caring for each other, supporting one another through tough times, always being by your partner’s side no matter what happens in life; good and bad. In this story the American dream of being wealthy gets in the way of true love. In most of these relationships love is missing, marriage had become a game; it was ok to go behind one another’s back to achieve their dark goal, abusiveness acceptable. For example on page 12 it says “Tom Buchanan broke her nose (Myrtle) with his open hand.” Take Jay Gatsby for example a man in love with a rich, young and beautiful woman named Daisy. He knew the only way for her to even notice him would be if he was rich. He lived in the illusion that money equaled happiness and that followed him till the day he died. Nothing made him happy he always wanted more and more. Sure his love for money made him wealthy but whether he had nothing or all the money in the world he could still not buy true love.

Daisy’s greed Gatsby can arguable be called the hero of the story, he too is afflicted with greed, perhaps the most of any of the characters. Fitzgerald, at first, manages to hide this trait of Gatsby beneath a romantic image of a young, wealthy, love struck man who gives grand parties and is well-liked. However, Jay Gatsby’s image changes as we learn more of the

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved” (“George Sand Quotes”). Since the beginning of time, part of human nature is to desire love and affection. However, this desire goes beyond physical appearances. Love possesses people and can make them do unimaginable things. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, unreciprocated feelings turn Gatsby’s initial lust into an obsessive desire to love.

Love. A word that contains so much meaning yet is extremely hard to define. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is about a hidden love that takes place in Long Island Sound, New York. Nick Carraway moves to New York for the bond business and reconnects with his second cousin, Daisy Buchanan. Jay Gatsby, Nick’s neighbor, throws lavish parties with the hope of meeting Daisy Buchanan.

This is when Gatsby realizes that his love for Daisy was all based on his money. He is figuring out that true love is impossible. Fitzgerald is proving his point through all of the failed relationships in the book. Another example of love being impossible is Tom’s relationship with Daisy. Even though tom and daisy say they love each other they actually hate each other. Daisy loves tom for his money and not for him

Tom is very rich and because of his wealth, Daisy liked Tom even more. According to Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature McClinton-Temple states, " Gatsby's belief that wealth is an important aspect of his new identity and an equally important to obtain Daisy's love turns out to be wrong- headed in the end. " This demonstrates that Gatsby was wrong, thinking that wealth is as important as Daisy's love for Gatsby. Instead, Daisy ended up going back to her husband because she would have a better life with Tom. Also, the way Tom made his money was more important to her than the amount of money he had.

The Great Gatsby is a novel written during the realism period. The book was published in 1925. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel based in the roaring twenties about two star crossed lovers who go behind their loved ones backs to have an affair . It is full of lies and deceit. A recurring theme in The Great Gatsby is love and how it destroys and ruin one's life and how you can never be fully satisfied by love. Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship has a series of ups and downs where they lie to each other and neither of them ever being happy .Fitzgerald uses the two lovers to express his point of view on love.

Although it is the repercussions of their deceptive fantasies that Gatsby and Lester fall victim to, it was their continued search for love that leads them to these. Love is the principal value in The Great Gatsby and is illustrated best by the contrast of Gatsby’s idealized romantic love for Daisy with Daisy’s “love” for wealth and status, a love which is common to the majority of their irresponsible society. F Scott Fitzgerald emphasizes Gatsby’s “romantic readiness” through this contrast as well as Gatsby’s fall from grace that results in him becoming lost in “the colossal vitality of his illusions” (pg. 92). Daisy characterizes the power of a love of money in the Great Gatsby and is used by Fitzgerald in condemning Gatsby’s hedonistic society as well as his own. However it is the absence of love –rather than the presence- that is most prominent in American

“I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love” (Tizon). “The Great Gatsby” is a novel that takes place during this period, the “Roaring Twenties”, or otherwise known as the “Jazz Age”. This is a time of prohibition and experimentation. The novel portrays both the chaos and loss of morals that many during this time are experiencing. In the novel, love is expressed in three different ways; unconditional love, idealised love, and material love.

Gatsby does not belong to his own class and he is not accepted by the upper class, therefore he becomes an exception. Because of disappointment of being looked down upon and impossibility of accept by the upper class, he has nothing left except his love, which is also his “love dream”. Gatsby’s love for Daisy has been the sole drive and motive of his living. Gatsby’s great love is also the root of his great tragedy, because he is desperately in love with a woman who is not worthy of his deep love. Fitzgerald offers Gatsby with the spirit of sincerity, generosity, nobility, perseverance, and loyalty. All his good natures can be seen

Love in both The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is presented in a twisted manner in each book; it focuses intently around the theme of money and obsession, creating relationships of dependence rather than love. The definition of love itself is ambiguous - to some it means unconditional support, faith and commitment whereas to others, it is simply stability within everyday life. Both texts seem to take elements of these definitions but demonstrate them in ways that appear toxic. All of the relationships between texts are driven by the desire for ownership and financial security The Great Gatsby can be regarded as a 20th century modern tragedy in the way that because of recent events that inflicted mass suffering