The Great Gatsby - Love or Obsession

After the war, Gatsby’s only goal was to posses enough wealth to bring Daisy back. He acquired millions of dollars from businesses he did. “Gatsby bough this house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (78). His love for Daisy was the only thing that made him the man he was. He was intelligent, rich and even famous, all because of her. He threw big parties were many celebrities went and were thousands of dollars were spent in liquor and food just to call Daisy’s attention. “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night…” (79), recalled Jordan, Gatsby’s friend, one night. All that Gatsby possessed was only and exclusively to show Daisy he could give her the life she wanted.

Does this mean that Gatsby thinks he loves Daisy but actually not? Or he is just one of the people who loses desire to things/persons he

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald he shows Gatsby’s obsessive feelings for Daisy by all the unremarkable actions he displays, and his incapability to love someone else. It all started in autumn of 1917 in Louisville, Kentucky. Gatsby was a lieutenant in the war and Daisy was just 18 years old. Even then Gatsby bestowed the same infatuation for Daisy that he does now, five years later. Over the course of those five years Gatsby did everything he could to become wealthy so that maybe he could find his way to Daisy again. What he is unaware of is that Daisy hardly remembers her time with him, and shows little thought towards him. His obsession for Daisy never changed, but his lifestyle certainly did.

However, from the description of the novel, also from the eye contact and emotional expression of Gatsby in the movie, it can be easily found that Gatsby really loves Daisy the girl. She is the goddess in his heart all the time. It seems that there is a deep gap between Gatsby and Daisy. He cannot forget his top girl all the time and he even firmly believed that he is able to draw Daisy’s heart back as long as he can possess a huge amount of

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.

I believe that Gatsby is still in denial with Daisy’s love. He wants the Daisy that once loved him instead of the Daisy she is now. After all the Daisy he wanted only loved him any nobody

"'Her voice is full of money,' [Gatsby] said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it...High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl" (127). This jarring reference to the intoxicating allure Daisy Buchanan holds over Jay Gatsby is the essence of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Gatsby, throughout the novel, is utterly infatuated with Daisy in an extravagant, idealistic, and narcissistic fashion. Gatsby's former lover from his days as a military officer in Kentucky, Daisy – radiant with glamour, prestige, dignity, sophistication, social grace, and all the blessings bestowed by the gods

Love comes in numerous ways and can be expressed in countless fashions. Love is powerful, has a meaning, and is capable of eclipsing time all due to the human psyche. One can love anything from a family member, to a fictional character in a TV show, or even an inanimate object. The fluidity of love is what makes it so difficult to understand if one is “in love” or has ever experienced love. Experiences often mold a person’s perspective on what love truly is. Love is not an emotion, but rather a condition of the mind that cause one to act in ways that are uncharacteristic. It can be blinding, obsessive, and pure, depending on the reciprocation of the love. Since love is an abstract concept, one simply cannot measure how much love they have received or given alike. Although the human brain can perceive and interpret other’s actions or words as signs of love and care, in which the mind processes this into the mental psyche that is love.

“Her voice is full of money.” Jay Gatsby said this while talking to Nick about Daisy. Daisy is a prime example of what people call a “gold digger.” She proves the theme, once the world reveals some of its riches; people tend to forget their values. Throughout the entire book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, we see over and over people turning their backs to love for money. They are shown money and never look back; a deep and powerful lusts controls them. While reading this book it conjures up many emotions such as sadness, anger, and depression. At the end of the book, the realization of the true human condition shows its true colors, and leaves the book full of depression.

In The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, we get to know a set of characters living in the fictional city of West Egg on prosperity Long Island in the summer of 1922. The biggest part of the story is about the wealthy, young, and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby who has a big passion and obsession for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. In this analysis the love triangle between Jay Gatsby, Daisy and Tom Buchanan will be the main focus.

Gatsby, on the other hand, has an extraordinary quality of hope to see if Gatsby is able to start up things again with Daisy. The author supported this by saying, “Can’t repeat the past?” Gatsby cried, “Why of course you can!” (Fitzgerald, 116) illustrates how Gatsby is an anxious guy who’s in love. Anyone who is in love can get distracted with the things that are happening to them in the present and get selfish enough to fight for what is called a “special” person. This creates an imaginative thought and connection how Gatsby is ironic for the love for Daisy. The author presented, “It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes.” (Fitzgerald, 149). With a connection to that, many people in society are immoral and greedy for deep affection. On the opposite hand, Gatsby is opposing and urging for love. Gatsby couldn’t resist the love for Daisy since the memories kept on coming back, which keeps the love alive. Conveniently, how Gatsby purchases a house right across the bay from Daisy’s mansion, which makes the setting very ironic to the readers. Therefore, Gatsby’s flawed love for Daisy Buchanan continues on.

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

Gatsby’s pursuit for his past relationship becomes selfish in his attempt to make Daisy notice him, specifically his wealth. While Daisy chooses Tom over Gatsby considering his deprivation of wealth, he remains judgmental when he assumes Daisy “only married [Tom] because [he] was poor and she was tired of waiting for [him]...she never loved any on except [Gatsby]” (130).Quickly, he presumes she solely decided on wealth to marry Tom, a simple alternative. Bringing up the past generates the thought to please himself into believing that Daisy has always

Describing the object of his obsession, Gatsby, first and foremost, pays attention to her voice. It is her central feature and is described far before her physical appearance. Moreover, Gatsby ties her voice to wealth, which gives his pursuit of Daisy attributes of a chase for status and wealth. He explicitly states that her voice is full of money and thinks, “That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it… High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl” (Fitzgerald, 1950, p. 127). The fact that of all her traits, it is the voice that is the most alluring makes it easier to connect her to the American dream, which,

Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald described Daisy as an almost disembodied voice which, Gatsby realized at the end, was ¡§full of money.¡¨ Fitzgerald wrote, ¡§her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget¡¨ (Fitzgerald, 14). It should be noted that, ¡§Gatsby¡¦s ability, like Fitzgerald¡¦s, ¡¥to keep that illusion perfect¡¦ sustains his self-deceptive and ultimately self-destructive quest, with the help of his own fabulous money, to win Daisy back from her husband¡¨ (Meyers, 30).