Essay on The Great Gatsby and the Power of Love

Gatsby exemplifies an individual who can not always get what he or she yearns for. He possesses more than millions of people have combined, yet is still not satisfied. There is only one thing that Gatsby is destined to have, and that is Daisy Buchanan’s unconditional love. Hence by the name, she is married to another man: Tom Buchanan. The madness begins before Daisy gets married when she shares a kiss of a lifetime with James Gatz. Gatsby allows himself to fall in love with her, and from that moment on, all of his life decisions and daily problems are stimulated by Daisy, and framed around her life. Some may consider Gatsby to be an extreme stalker or nutcase, but in reality Gatsby simply has faith in

    Many argue that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is an example of the "great American love story", but it is not. The Great Gatsby is not a tale about perfect love; it is a tale of love and lust corrupting individuals in their lives, and of an American dream that is never fulfilled. Throughout the story, we follow multiple relationships, but focus is on the single relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. This relationship, however, fails to fulfill many requirements that would make it a true love story, and thus, while some hardship is to be expected, this relationship encounters an excessive amount. To determine if The Great Gatsby is a "great American love story", it is necessary

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.

Have you ever been in a situation where you have almost met your goal, but something in the way is preventing you from fully accomplishing it? Jay Gatsby, one of the protagonists in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, loses the love of his life, Daisy, due to years of separation and is trying to win her back. Daisy’s husband, Tom, however, won’t let her go that easy. Gatsby fights his way to get back the lover he waits so many years for. Preceding Gatsby’s risky quest, his main goal in life is to obtain a great wealth in order to impress the beautiful Daisy. He only thinks about Daisy and their life together. He will do anything to be reunited, no matter the consequences. Jay’s shadow side is revealed and anima is present

Gatsby explains how he wants to rekindle his relationship with Daisy and he is desperate to repeat what they once had. He wants it to seem as if the past had not happened and that Daisy never married Tom. If he could go back he would but he cannot so he will do anything and everything it takes to get Daisy back and fulfil the perfect picture he has in his head. This shows Gatsby’s love for Daisy because he is willing to do anything to win her back.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is about a man named Gatsby, in love with a woman, Daisy, who is married to Tom Buchannan. He dreams that one day he and Daisy will get together. Gatsby has worked hard to become the man that he believes will impress Daisy. Even though he has an extravagant house, lots of money, and wild parties, he is without the one person he wants, Daisy. Even befriending Nick deals with Gatsby getting Daisy, because Daisy is Nick’s cousin. In a meeting arranged by Nick and Gatsby, Daisy is invited over for tea and she sees Gatsby. It seems as if time is suspended for a moment, as they look at each other both thinking something. Then Gatsby tips over Nick’s clock, symbolizing that he is running out of

After five years of being in a marriage - maybe not so happy but still - she is thinking about leaving everything behind and running back to Gatsby, who was her first love. Gatsby, on the other hand, is not cheating on anyone. He is free like a bird but mentally, he is not so free. His obsession with Daisy made him do things that violated quite a few significant values. Shown as a selfish, self-centered man, he tries to break apart a five year long marriage because he wants to finally win Daisy, who is not being treated equally by any men and is treated like a trophy instead, “High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl”(Fitzgerald, 120). It is not so surprising because the setting of this book is happening in the 1920’s when the gender roles were different than they are today. The main goal was to have a pretty, “trophy wife” and men had all the power. Instead of respecting Daisy’s privacy, Gatsby leaves her with no choice but to tell Tom that there is someone else in her life with Gatsby being present. It is very possible that things would have gone in a different direction if he let her take her time and have this conversation in a more private setting. Both Gatsby and Tom’s decisions are spontaneous and not so thought out. Sometimes, they act like children, fighting over Daisy, instead of dealing with the situation like two adult

Courtly love—an expression of passion, a token of intimacy, and a vibrant theme which permeates the spirit of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Energetic and enterprising, young James Gatz ascends the social ladder to become a grossly successful and affluent businessman, all driven by a single purpose: to win the beautiful Daisy’s heart. Gatsby plays his role as Daisy’s courtly lover by his ambitions to satisfy his sincere, undying ardor and to prove his commitment to Daisy’s wellbeing.

In the Great Gatsby the feelings of Jay Gatsby to Daisy is love, wealth, and happiness. Although Daisy loves him, Gatsby’s love for Daisy is much more intense. Gatsby shows his love by returning from war, he bought the house across from her, and he threw those enormous parties hoping she would come. He even loved her more than her own husband. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the true feeling Gatsby has for Daisy which is love.

A common theme throughout the book is love. Love is shown through every character in some way. It’s mixed in with every relationship in the book. Gatsby has loved Daisy for years and Daisy forgot about her love for Gatsby until they finally met again. Tom, on the other hand, claims that he loved Daisy, when in reality he had an affair with Myrtle. Gatsby focused his whole life on Daisy and his love for her. He wouldn’t back down to anyone. When Tom and Daisy were with Gatsby and Nick talking about what has been happening with their affair, Daisy starts to tell Tom that she is leaving him. Tom won’t believe it and thinks it’s all nonsense. Gatsby doesn’t believe it’s real until Daisy says she never loved him. “It doesn’t matter anymore. Just tell him the truth, that you never loved him, and it’s all wiped out forever.” (Fitzgerald 132) This shows you that he was not satisfied until he heard her say those words. Gatsby’s love for Daisy was superficial and not real enough to where he has to be aggressive towards Tom. Even when Daisy finally

Gatsby replies that Daisy loves him and had never loved Tom to which Tom hastily objects. They begin arguing about who Daisy truly loves and whether she has ever loved Tom. In return he accused Gatsby of bootlegging and other criminal activities. At this point Daisy starts siding with Tom and Gatsby realises that he has been defeated. Gatsby had tried to lay out and create the perfect future but Tom had controlled the past by bringing back intimate memories. This is a very significant part of the book as this is when Gatsby’s dream, which parallels with the American dream shatters. Everything that he had worked for, the dream he had bound himself to was destroyed in that moment and that was what broke Gatsby and made him not so ‘great’ any more. “…Only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.”

Gatsby tries to get her to tell Tom that she never loved him, but she refuses (Fitzgerald 132). While Gatsby should not of asked her to say something like that, she should have been upfront with Gatsby, and told him that she did love Tom, at one point. Although she did not love Tom most of the time, he was a cheater and a racist bigot. He is all of those things, but worst of all, he single handedly orchestrated Gatsby's death. After a car hit Myrtle, killing her, Wilson is distraught and vulnerable, Tom then uses this to get his revenge on Gatsby, by telling Wilson that it was Gatsby's car (Fitzgerald 140). Tom was so jealous he wasn’t thinking about what Wilson would do to Gatsby. This jealousy was rightfully placed because Gatsby was having an affair with his wife a married

Gatsby’s love for Daisy was what came to his quick ending. Gatsby was so quick on pleasing Daisy that he didn’t truly understand that she was nothing but a gold-digging multiple bad words girl who didn’t really seem to care about Gatsby. Gatsby was so eager to see Daisy once again and claim her back as his as it says, “He waited, looking at me with suppressed eagerness.” (82). He was having this illusion that he could have Daisy back even though she was already married to Tom. He believed that even after five years, he could, “... fix everything just the way it was before.” (110). Daisy was deceiving him, tricking him by making him think that she would go back to him after she left Tom. Gatsby was drawn into this fantasy world that ultimately

The Great Gatsby does not offer a definition of love, or a contrast between love and romance. Rather it suggests that what people believe to be love is normally only a dream. America in the 1920s was a country where moral values were slowly crumbling and Americans soon only had one dream and objective to achieve, success. Distorted love is one theme in the novel The Great Gatsby, present among all of the characters relationships; Daisy and Tom, Tom and Myrtle, Daisy and Gatsby, and Wilson and Myrtle, though Myrtle does not return the love. This distortion illustrates that it is not love that leads several characters to death, but lust and the materialistic possessions that really drive the characters to their lonely

The development of American Literature, much like the development of the nation, began in earnest, springing from a Romantic ideology that honored individualism and visionary idealism. As the nation broke away from the traditions of European Romanticism, America forged its own unique romantic style that would resonate through future generations of literary works. Through periods of momentous change, the fundamentally Romantic nature of American literature held fast, a fact clearly demonstrated in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In an era of post-war disillusionment, when idealism succumbed to hedonistic materialism, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romantically charged novel,