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Examples Of Love In The Great Gatsby

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Whether you've been in a relationship or not you know that love is complicated. Love can make you feel like you're on top of the world, but in those times where you're just not sure how you feel it can be so confusing. The Great Gatsby demonstrates this perfectly by displaying multiple love relationships with those confusing moments. Love is very confusing. You can feel like you’re at the peak of your life,and then you can also feel like you’re at an all time low.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald proves love can be very confusing by showing us Daisy and Tom’s relationship. Tom leaves to go see his side piece in New York. “‘Hello, Wilson, old…around the garage.”. (Fitzgerald ). Tom claims he loves Daisy the whole book, but yet he cheats on her. Tom even has the nerve to get jealous when Daisy talks about Gatsby like he isn't doing something much worse. Tom also selfishly breaks apart Wilson and Myrtle, he puts on this nice guy act with Wilson while he’s slowly destroying his life. But Tom apparently still loves Daisy. …show more content…

Gatsby and Tom are going at it about who Daisy truly loves. “Oh, you want…physically into Gatsby.” (Fitzgerald 132). It seems like Daisy is confused, she doesn't know what she truly wants. She loves Tom and Gatsby just as much, but it's difficult to choose one person when you love both so intensely. So many loving memories can't just be let go. Daisy cant leave Tom behind for a love that was lost long ago. Gatsby’s obsession blinds him, he goes into these fits of craziness when things with Daisy don't play out as he

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