The Great Gatsby Love Analysis

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.

Gatsby, on the other hand, develops into the person he is by recognizing the kind of person he does not want to be- a bourgeois, like his parents. He rejects them as “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (The Great Gatsby 104) and yearns to move up from the middle class he is born into. After seeing millionaire Dan Cody’s yacht, Gatsby strive to achieve “all the beauty and glamour in the world” (106) that the yacht represents to him. Gatsby’s desire to attain the wealth and glamour of the upper class leads him to create the personage Jay Gatsby, his Platonic conception of himself. He goes about transforming himself methodically, practicing things such as “elocution, poise, and how to attain it” (GG 181) and learning from Dan Cody until “the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man” (107). As an outsider, Gatsby’s perception of the upper class is romanticized and

The dream that he would be more than he was when he was a child, to have all the riches that a man could have, all the women, cars and houses. “ The truth about Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself.(98) .Gatsby’s young life, we are told that it wasn’t the best. He starts with so little being the son of an unsuccessful farmer. He distanced himself from his family because he did not see them as his parents, His imagination refused to see that way..”His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people-his imagination never really accepted them as his parents at all.” (98) As he grew older he had less and wanted to change that so he did. He spent his time on the

According to some, true love is a pure motive for any venture; for others, the concept of true love is pure hogwash. Whether or not Gatsby’s affection for Daisy is really “true love”, the fact that it remains his sole motivator for success must compare with those classic fairy tales of heroes rescuing princesses. In Gatsby’s mind it certainly does, he sees himself as a heroic prince or knight in shining armor on the gallant quest to save Daisy from the man she does not love. Equivalent to the white knights of arthurian legend, Gatsby stops at nothing to achieve his singular goal; and goes to extents such as buying that specific mansion “so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (78), reading “a Chicago paper for years on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy's name” (79), and taking the blame for her hit-and-run. His dream of love and a life with Daisy, naive though it may be, is morally righteous at its heart. However, one might call it

"The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God - a phrase which, if it means

“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.”

The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God-- a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-- and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end (99).

When reading The Great Gatsby, a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, something is lacking through all the relationships within the book. What is lacking is the passion and the loyalty that most people have whenever they dedicate themselves to their relationship. There are multiple relationships, but only Tom is married to Daisy, the rest are scandals going on. They both are in a relationship where they both are cheating on each other with other people. Tom is in a relationship with a girl named Myrtle, who is already married to Wilson, and Daisy is in a relationship with Gatsby, someone who had a crush on her for years. These relationships represents the society in the 1920s in what it was like trying to live in that time period. As a result, Fitzgerald mocks the idea of love within the 1920s and calls out how people throughout the book only wished for a social ranking, wealth, and materialistic goods and shows how much of an unhealthy relationship most of the characters have.

It is revealed that James Gatz created the persona of Jay Gatsby. As the novel continues it becomes apparent that James Gatz no longer exists and that Gatz has completely internalised Jay Gatsby making it his true identity. This appears to have damaging effects on Gatsby that we find out throughout the novel, however Gatsby appears to be in denial about these

Jay Gatsby, the title character of The Great Gatsby, is really not all that the title might suggest. First of all, his real name is James Gatz. He changed it in an effort to leave behind his old life as a poor boy and create an entirely new identity. He is also a liar and a criminal, having accumulated his wealth and position by dishonest means. But he is still called ‘great,’ and in a sense he is. Gatsby is made great by his unfaltering hope, and his determination to live in a perfect world with Daisy and their perfect love. Gatsby has many visible flaws—his obvious lies, his mysterious way of avoiding straight answers. But they are shadowed over by his gentle smile and his visible hunger for an ideal future. The coarse and playful Jay

Jay Gatsby is an increasingly dark and mysterious character in this novel. Is he in love with Daisy, or just a conception of her? He obsesses over the fact of constantly impressing her. He throws gigantic parties every weekend, hoping that one day she will attend one and they will be united again. Gatsby is the greatest demonstrator of the love theme in this story. He perceives Daisy as a perfect girl who will make his life

While most people chase love, few know that it is foolish. One should not chase after love, but allow it to find them naturally. Obviously, Gatsby was none the wiser about that bit of advice. In the story, we see Gatsby chase after his supposedly long lost love, but is she truly his love? With how little time they spent together, how much they’ve grown throughout the years, and all that has happened in both of their lives, does Gatsby truly love Daisy, a married mother of one? Their star-crossed story is the perfect example of a hold on the past destroying a future. This essay will explore their strange and twisted romance while supporting one simple fact. Jay Gatsby was not in love with Daisy.

Nick seems compassionate when he said that Jay invented the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would invent (Fitzgerald 104). I think it would have to be a desperate and miserable seventeen year old boy to invent a person and take on that new identity. Nick supports me on this idea when he says: "But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot" (Fitzgerald, 105). Nick goes on to say that Gatsby's thoughts of him himself haunted him in bed at night. The dreams Gatsby had were a beautiful hint of the unreality of reality they were "a promise that the rock of the world was found securely on a fairy's wing" (Fitzgerald 105).

Jay Gatsby is the protagonist of The Great Gatsby. Like many others in the novel Gatsby is a young, very wealthy man. Nick Carraway neighbors Gatsby and his large mysterious mansion famous for his shindigs. Even though many people attend his parties, nobody really knows who he is or his story. Throughout the novel we learn that Gatsby was born in a rural town in North Dakota. He was not rich then, but he gained his fortune throughout the years by committing criminal activities. In the beginning of the novel Nick looks at Gatsby as a faulty man, but he later then sees that he works hard to get to where he wants to be reaching for the green light.

In The Great Gatsby, when Nick first meets Gatsby he describes him as one who: “smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life” ( Fitzgerald pg.48). Gatsby did not just naturally make this appearance, he had ideals of who he wanted to be. So because of these ideals, he set goals and aimed for them. In Gatsby’s daily agenda, “On the last fly-leaf was printed the word schedule and the date September 12, 1906” ( Fitzgerald pg.173). This shows just how disciplined Gatsby was on himself. Gatsby did these things and showed off because he knew it would impress Daisy and pay off when he saw her again.