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    literary work The Great Gatsby depicts the height of the early 1920s scene through Nick Carraway’s perspective, effectively displaying the shortcomings of human nature. With love being one of the central themes of the novel, the main plot focuses on Gatsby’s endeavors to win over Daisy’s affections, which therein results in the confrontation between him and Daisy’s husband Tom Buchanan. At the climax of the novel however, Daisy makes her decision to remain with Tom. Despite the love Daisy felt towards

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    thinking of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a story of wealth, love and tragedy is told, but what is the whole main point of it all? A quick recap is Jay Gatsby is in love with a woman who is married and has a child, but his heart still aches for her everyday. Ironically he buys a giant house right across from her, hoping one day she might see that it’s him. Most of the time the characters are bragging about who has more money, and who truly loves who, which demonstrates a great theme. When

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    Falling in love is similar to looking for something one lost. It’s quite where one expects it to be. This is evident in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, where the character Nick Carraway struggles with his sexuality and his infatuation with Jay Gatsby, his roommate. Because of these secrets, he understands the mystery of love and forbidden love, two extremely different categories. He expresses this understanding through his closeted sexuality, and his bearing witness to multiple

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    Love is an emotion, state, and feeling that everyone wishes to experience. It is a divine attraction to a person or thing. In most cases, people express this emotion towards another person. However, it is not uncommon for mankind to develop this form of attachment toward non living, inanimate objects. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals the theme of love through Gatsby’s intimate passion for Daisy, Daisy’s fondness of wealth, and Tom’s selfish infatuation with himself. Jay Gatsby is

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    one person is crazy in love with another , they might do anything to make their crush love them back. In many stories, love can create conflicts with the characters. Also, being poor or rich can interfere with the true meaning of love. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, Gatsby has been in love with Daisy since he had left for war. At Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, he throws many parties hoping that Daisy will notice. When Nick and Gatsby meet, Gatsby asks Nick if he can have

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    In any relationship, lust, love, or desire, occasionally all, are the driving forces of that relationship. In the case of the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, none of them seem to have solid relationships. Instead, Fitzgerald portrays them as being toxic for both parties. Throughout the novel, there is never any moment in which the couples seem to have any real connection beyond a materialistic one, thus providing the assumption that most of them are in it for shallow reasons

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald presents many themes in his novel, The Great Gatsby. One of the themes is love can be cruel. This theme is developed throughout the novel by his use of the motif of cheating inside of relationships as well as Gatsby’s blindness of Daisy’s flawed character. This motif represents the loneliness that still surrounds the characters even while they are within marriages. Throughout The Great Gatsby it is known to most of the characters that Tom Buchanan is not completely loyal to his

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    Love can be a scary possibility and it can crush one’s heart or it can give a person the happily ever after ending. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Jay Gatsby, lives in the famous time period of the 1920s and suffers from a broken heart that waits to be united once again with his first love. In this story, money and fake love is the theme throughout New York. Gatsby had once been in love but because of the importance of social classes and how rich and poor classes

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    The Great Gatsby is a novel where love is a main focus, but is the love purchased? Purchased love was huge in the 1920s, which is the time period this novel was written in. Purchased love is where one or both people in the relationship buy things for each other, so they are loved. Some people only know this kind of love. For example, we could assume Tom. Usually families who had a lot of money, like Tom’s, arranged marriages with other wealthy families, like Daisy. Although, not all purchased love

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    The Great Gatsby is a tragic romantic novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 which deals with the lives of four rich people from the perspective of Nick Carraway. The book places emphasis on the love triangle between Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, and Daisy Buchanan. Jay Gatsby, a die-hard romanticist, continues to chase his young love, Daisy Buchanan, even after being separated because of the Great War. This extensive journey to reconnect with Daisy ultimately causes Gatsby to destroy himself to

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