Examples Of Love In The Great Gatsby

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Some say when it comes to love it takes two to tango. Love could be a beautiful thing, but it doesn’t always last forever. It can turn ugly. Either one or the other loses feelings and they just fade away and the other is stuck, like a hostage in their memory. Love is like a rubber band. Two people hold on and they just keep stretching and stretching, but then someone lets go, and the one that held on gets the snap, and gets hurt. And in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, it shows how such a good thing could go bad, and no matter how hard you try to bring it back together, you’ll always lose it, it is useless. Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is like waiting for a ship to arrive at an airport. At the end of the…show more content…
He knew he could treat Daisy better, and that Daisy was meant to be his all along. “’Your wife doesn’t love you,’ said Gatsby quietly. ‘She’s never loved you. She loves me.”’ (137). Gatsby had such great confidence that Daisy wanted him more than anyone. His heart would ache whenever he pictured her with Tom or anyone else. “’She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me”’ (137). It had been five years since he had fallen for her that he thinks she’s the same person she was or at least he thought she was. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you”’ (116). But the thing that Gatsby hadn’t realized is that he wasn’t in love with daisy, but he was in love with his dream version of Daisy. Daisy also does not love Gatsby, but she loves the material wealth that he provided. When he showed her the shirts, she was crying because they symbolized something like Toms pearls did; she was happy. “They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”(98). Gatsby and Daisy were both in love with the illusion of each other, that they got caught up in such
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