Theme Of Love In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby was published in 1925,and this book was awarded the second of 100 best novels of American literary history.This book’s writer,F. Scott Fitzgerald,whose shadow has been shown on the Nick and Gatsby.Nick and Fitzgerald were both born in common families but graduated from famous universities,and thought that the new life with luxury and crazy love is attractive.Gatsby and Fitzgerald are both mammonish.They thought the money can bring everything and they can prove that they are the qualified lovers with money.Besides,the writer put the story in 1920s when American economy was developing at full speed.

Nick and Gatsby can both relate to wanting the girl that they can't have. For Gatsby, his dream girl is Daisy. They had a relationship but then Gatsby had to go into war and they hadn't seen each other for five years. All Gatsby thought about was seeing daisy again, he even bought a house across a lake from her. Daisy obviously moved on because she married Tom, a rich socialite but their relationship is toxic. A quote to support this statement is “Look!” she complained. “I hurt it.” We all looked- knuckle was black and blue. “You did it, Tom, she said accusingly. I know you didn't mean to but you did do it. That's what I get got marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a-”( ). This shows that Tom is abusive and he is a very ignorant and disrespectful human being. Gatsby's has always had an undying love for Daisy and he states that they should be together. A quote that shows is “I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before,” he said, nodding determinedly. “She’ll see.” ( )That shows that Gatsby has never stopped loving Daisy and he wants to fix his relationship with her. Nick on the other hand has his eyes on Jordan. Things are not easy because Jordan is focused on her golfing career and her Aunt is very controlling. Gatsby obsesses over Daisy and is in love with her but with Nick he is just attracted to Jordan, nothing close to love. Nick says, “ I wasn't actually in love but, I

F. Scott Fitzgerald tone throughout the novel is that Gatsby’s love for Daisy is one-of-a-kind and matchless . In chapter one Nick states that, “it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find this again”, which shows how rare the love Gatsby shows is. Nick was referring to Gatsby’s need to get Daisy back into his life. To Gatsby her love was a necessity. (6;

Regarding Gatsby, it is his lack of emotional satisfaction that shapes his obsession and greed toward Daisy. Gatsby’s goal is to regain his former romantic relationship he shares with Daisy, as he truly believes that it is possible to repeat the past (Fitzgerald 110). In fact, during the last five years, he builds himself a facade through illegal means to impress Daisy. Nevertheless, his greed for the exclusivity of Daisy backfires. Daisy says that “ ‘[he] [wants] too much!’... ‘[she] [loves] [him] now--- isn’t that enough?’ ” (132). When Gatsby asks Daisy to affirm that she only loves him, she could not confirm the statement truthfully, thus reducing Gatsby’s efforts throughout the years to naught. Gatsby’s commitment for Daisy’s affection is the very cause of Daisy’s rejection.

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.

Through marriages, relationships, and friendships the author questions rather love itself is unstable or is it the way the characters experience love and desire problematic? I choose to write on this because the way that Frederick Douglass portrays them is a phenomenal complex that will make you reconsider true love. The relationship at the very heart of The Great Gatsby is, of course, Gatsby and Daisy, or more specifically, Gatsby’s tragic love of (or obsession with) Daisy, which is a love that drives the novel’s plot.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby explains Jay Gatsby’s, the title character’s, life through the narrator Nick Carraway who is a friend of Gatsby. Gatsby spends his life trying to become rich to persuade his former sweetheart Daisy Buchanan to leave her husband and forget the last three years of her life. Gatsby and Daisy had something great in the past; Fitzgerald uses objects that symbolize time to represent what they had, what Gatsby wants, and what he cannot get.

Nick Carraway is initially introduced to Jordan Baker by his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, when he goes to their house for dinner. Jordan immediately presents herself as aloof, and makes Nick feel uncomfortable. This is portrayed by his statement: “– indeed, I was almost surprised into

The Great Gatsby is a well written novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald where a midwesterner named Nick Carraway gets lured into the lavish and elegant lifestyle of his enigmatic neighbor, Jay Gatsby. As the story unravels, Nick Carraway begins to see through Gatsby's suave facade, only to find a desperate, heartbroken and lonely man who just wanted to relive the past with his one and only desire. This sensational love story takes place during the well known“Roaring Twenties” in New York City. The genre of this thrilling and exciting novel is historical fiction.

Daisy Buchanan is the golden girl. Wealthy, gorgeous, and alluring to every man who meets her. The life she has is also what many would call the American Dream. On the night of Nick’s first visit to the Buchanan’s house, Daisy is bemoaning to him about her sorrow and weakening relationship with Tom. Nick has a revelation towards the insincerity of her words and notices the entire situation is “...as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to extract a contributory emotion from me.

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

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.

One theme displayed in The Great Gatsby is that some things in life are not always attainable. As the novel states, “...Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn” (Fitzgerald 2). At the beginning of the novel, Nick idolizes Gatsby for his lavish lifestyle. Nick’s infatuation towards Gatsby slowly turns into wanting to aspire and become like him; however, Nick’s aspirations deteriorate after he finds out about Gatsby’s false stories. Another example is Myrtle’s fixation with the wealth, as the novel states, “With the influence of her dress her personality had also undergone a change” (Fitzgerald 30). Myrtle changing into different fancy dresses acts as a metaphor, comparing her poor lifestyle with the riches’.

In the Great Gatsby, the author first introduces ideas of infidelity through Tom Buchanan, an upper class man from old money, and Myrtle Wilson, a woman from the valley of ashes with a poor, working class background. Both tired of their respective significant others, they find themselves together in their love nest apartment in New York City, both enjoying what the other has to offer. Specifically, Myrtle, takes joy from using the money that Tom has to get materialistic things that she wants and Tom, getting some action and thrill using her. This in itself shows obvious power differences all due to their background. However, Nick Carraway, the narrator for the book observes this first hand when he first goes out with Tom and Myrtle. On their way to their love nest, Myrtle notices someone selling dogs, exclaiming “”I think it’s cute,”and furthermore “how much is it?” “‘That dog?’ [said the seller who] looked at it admiringly ‘That dog will cost you ten dollars.’” In reply, “‘Is it a boy or girl?’ she [asks] delicately. Tom, participating in the conversation at last, “‘It’s a bitch’ said Tom decisively. ‘Here’s your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it?’” (Fitzgerald 28). Though at first this can be assumed as Tom giving in to Myrtle’s whims in hopes to keep her happy, when looked further, there is a clear sign that Tom disregards this encounter. With the way he assumes dominance in the way he decides whether the dog is boy or a girl, and how be pays it off without so much

Love the one thing that circulates the whole novel to the end. The one thing that can make somebody do anything for just that one very special person to them that they love . I do believe that Gatsby’s love for Daisy is genuine. It doesn’t matter that the Daisy that he’s in love with is in authentic. He is truly in love with what she represents and that is beauty and wealth. These 2 reasons is what really stands out for him and his love. Remembering that in the book Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy’s voice sounds like money. He is fully in love with this woman the feeling might just not be fully mutual. Buying into his dreams is just a man looking for a better life from the being born into a poor family. Gatsby thinks that he is what best fits Daisy and that he will take care of her. All cause of this one word called love.