A hopeless romantic will perceive love and relationships more seriously than the usual person. They are very optimistic and naive. They often are more obsessed with their view of how their relationship could be, instead of what it is. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby engages in a relationship with a married woman, Daisy Buchanan. This relationship leads Gatsby to make many bad decisions which leads to his downfall. Gatsby is essentially an innocent victim (romantic idealist) who is destroyed by his inability to accept reality.
Gatsby had always knew that he wanted to be wealthy and successful since a young age. To himself “he was a son of God”( Fitzgerald 98). He was always hard-working and dedicated. But once
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Daisy only cares about money not love. She is very inconsiderate and only cares about herself but to Gatsby she is absolutely perfect and can do no wrong. When Gatsby restarts his relationship with Daisy she is married with a child. This upsets him so he convinces himself that Daisy and her husband’s marriage was only for money. He is so upset that he decided to argue with Tom in front of Daisy and make her tell Tom that she never loved him. When Tom confronts Gatsby about the affair he tells him that ,“Your wife doesn’t love you,” and that “she’s never loved you. She loves me.” (Fitzgerald 130). Shortly after Daisy confesses to Gatsby saying, “I did love him once (Tom)—but I loved you too”(Fitzgerald 132). Even after this confession he still manages to convince himself that Daisy’s marriage “‘In any case’...‘it was just personal’” (Fitzgerald 152). When Daisy first went to Gatsby’s house she cries as Gatsby throws his expensive shirts on to the ground because “they're such beautiful shirts”(Fitzgerald 92).This is ironic because the only reason Daisy regretted marrying Tom was when she had seen how wealthy Gatsby had become. Gatsby doesn’t realize this because he is so deluded by his false reality, where he believes that “Daisy’s love is only for him, and it cannot