Love is a feeling that all humans feel. There are no exceptions. No matter where one comes from or their status in society, love is something everyone on this planet feels. Love, however, differs for every person. Like all emotions, one experiences love differently from the person next to them and nevertheless, the characters in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are no different; they test their bonds, create new ones, and rediscover pre-existing bonds they share with their other part. So what is love and how can one obtain it? Feelings are complicated to define since it depends on the person experiencing the emotion and love is no different. For every person, love is different. By dictionary definition, love is “an intense feeling …show more content…
By marrying another wealthy person, the affluent can continue to maintain their extravagant lifestyle. Daisy married Tom “without so much as a shiver”(78) despite being drunk and crying the day before. Her excessive drinking the night before her wedding day illustrates how reluctant she is to marry Tom and as she holds a letter, most likely from Gatsby since he is the one she loved, it confirms the fact that Daisy did not marry Tom out of love, but for the lifestyle he can provide her. Now, this brings up the question of does money buy love. So, does it? The answer is simple. Someone’s status or lifestyle should not determine whether to love them or not; love is felt through the heart and is unpredictable. If money is a deciding factor in one’s love life, then that isn’t love, so one cannot say that money can buy love. In that kind of situation, money is buying the person’s time, not love. Like stated before, love is when one can trust their significant other as much as they trust themselves. If money were involved, it would be the equivalent to trying to buy oneself, which is, logically and emotionally, confusing. Why would one need to buy oneself if they already have themselves? They don’t. So, when one says money can buy love, they are wrong since money buys time rather than