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Examples Of Unconditional Love In The Great Gatsby

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Unconditional love or money? That is the ultimate question that keeps recurring throughout The Great Gatsby. Daisy finds herself at this crossroad many times, where one path is money and the other is the unconditional love. In this scenario, the money is Tom Buchanan and the love is Jay Gatsby. She should have chosen the love, as money cannot buy happiness, or love for that matter. However, growing up in a wealthy family made Daisy “money hungry.” Daisy would have been better marrying Gatsby because of how madly the two were in love with each other, how loyal Gatsby had been to Daisy, and Gatsby could have given her everything she ever wanted. Gatsby had been madly in love with Daisy. After not seeing Daisy for five years, he still had unbelievably strong feelings for her. He even moved across the bay just to be close to her. Whenever Nick invites Daisy over for tea and Gatsby shows up, the flame between the two had rekindled. Nick goes to say: “They had forgotten me but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn’t know me now at all” (Fitzgerald 101-102). This quote shows how wrapped up the two were, …show more content…

He did not get into any mentioned relationships while away or waiting for Daisy, he sent her letters and tried to still be a part of her life, and he even went back home to see her after the war. Gatsby walked the roads that he and Daisy had once walked as a couple and just spent his time reminiscing the times they had. But, he kept his head up and tried to get her attention any way he could. The amount of loyalty Gatsby showed Daisy after not seeing her for five years was amazing. He only wanted her to be happy, and he knew she would be happy with him. Nick believed that Gatsby moving near Daisy was a coincidence, but Jordan tells him: “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald

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Nick retells Gatsby's account of falling in love with Daisy. "My house was at the tip of the Egg, only fifty yards from the sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season." (pg.9) " He told me all this very much later, but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedent, which warrant even faintly true." (pg.107) "just a quarter of a century after my father and a little late I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War."

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Knowing Gatsby, he might have never met Daisy again because he’s too chicken to talk to her himself, so he asked for Nick's help. “I called up Daisy from the office the next morning, and invited her to come to tea.” (Fitzgerald

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Gatsby and Tom both try to impress Daisy with their wealth. I believe the only reason Daisy stays with Tom is because he is wealthy, even though she too does not seem to be happy with their relationship. The reason Gatsby worked so hard to become wealthy was because Daisy refused to be with him when he was poor. Without money I do not think either of them would have the attention of Daisy. Both men being wealthy also allows them to be flashy.

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Gatsby and Daisy reunited at the home of Nick Carraway, who was Gatsby’s neighbor, Daisy’s cousin, and the narrator of The Great Gatsby. Their initial reunion was awkward but then Nick left them to talk alone for a time and when he returned the mood had greatly improved. “Gatsby got himself into a shadow and while Daisy and I talked looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with tense unhappy eyes. However, as calmness wasn't an end in itself I made an excuse at the first possible moment and got to my feet. “Where are you going?” demanded Gatsby in immediate alarm.

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He plans for Nick to go out to lunch with Jordan Baker, a close friend of Daisy’s, and have him convince Daisy to travel to the West Egg for tea. When Nick wonders why Gatsby did not ask Jordan to arrange the tea date, she explains that “he wants [Daisy] to see [Nick’s] house… and [Gatsby’s] house is right next door” (Fitzgerald 79). Gatsby hopes that if Nick hosts the meeting, Daisy will see his mansion and be charmed by his extravagant lifestyle. He is self-absorbed as he only acts friendly to Nick and uses him to his advantage in an attempt to reunite and build a romantic relationship with Daisy. Additionally, Gatsby is hesitant to believe the past cannot be made up and he has

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His name was Jay Gatsby, and I didn’t lay eyes on him again for over four years — even after I’d met him on Long Island I didn’t realize it was the same man.” (Fitzgerald 58-59). This is the first flashback we receive of Gatsby’s past and it reveals that Gatsby and Daisy have met before and were in a serious relationship. It is at this time, in the book, that Gatsby is going to ask Nick to invite Daisy to tea so Gatsby can reconnect with Daisy.

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Anna Friedrichs Mrs. Glick English 10 08 June 2023 The Great Gatsby What is the limit of unconditional love? How much would you go through for love? In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby and his unconditional love for Daisy is shown in all of his actions throughout the book.

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Although Gatsby had true love for Daisy, her love for money overpowered her love for Gatsby. The text explains, “ ‘Of course she might have loved him just for a minute, when they were first married-and loved me even more then, do you see?’ ” (Fitzgerald 92). (quote) Till his death, Gatsby was hopeful that Daisy would choose to pursue him. Even though Gatsby became a prosperous public figure, his motivation behind it was not for his own benefit, but to show Daisy he was worthy of her love.

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There are many romantic experiences that we come upon between the two, whether that be in the past or the present. When we are being presented with the early stages between Daisy and Gatsby, we can see the desire that they have for one another. It is stated that Gatsby, “-looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time…” (Fitzgerald 75). The passion for one another is showed even more when it is stated about their relationship that, “They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat’s shoulder or when he touched the end of her finger, gently…”

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Daisy tried to wait for Gatsby to come back but eventually she moved on and married Tom. Gatsby however was not accepting of this love. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy that that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you.” (Fitzgerald 109). Gatsby is desiring for Daisy to leave everything she has created with Tom in the past four years of being married.

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The Cyclopedia of Literary Places states “that obtaining his wealth he moved to West Egg”, and bought and threw numerous glitzy and riotous parties in his huge mansion right across the bay from the Buchanans hoping to acquire the attention of his representation of his greatest desire in life as Nina Protomastro describes her, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby had became close friends with Nick because he knew that was Daisy’s cousin, and that was his way to get to her. He finally got Jordan to tell Nick he wanted him to invite Daisy over to his house for to so he could just casually run onto her. F. Scott Fitzgerald explains how Gatsby sent gardeners to Nick’s house and mowed his grass, and fixed his bird bath and things, Gatsby was setting up the perfect reunion for him and Daisy. He was so desperate to have her love again he would do anything it takes to get her attention and spark up old

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Unfortunately for him, Daisy only cared about money and status. Gatsby himself brought this up to Daisy and Tom, “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,”(Fitzgerald ch 7). This quotation further proves that Daisy only cared about status, and money, driving Gatsby into corrupt ways of making money.

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Daisy, just like Gatsby, was in life for the money. Gatsby describes Daisy’s voice as “full of money” (Fitzgerald page #). When they first met, Gatsby could not provide for Daisy financially and Daisy was not able to live independently on her own. Thus, fearing she would end up alone, she married Tom Buchanan. However, her marriage with Tom turned out to be anything but healthy.

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At this time, love existed in Gatsby and Daisy, because they were so young, pure and full of passion that didn 't realize a series of problems caused by the difference of substance and stratum. However, with the outbreak of the First World War, Gatsby was forced to join the army. Daisy waited until the end of the war, Gatsby still hasn 't come back, a year later, and Daisy married the wealthy Buchanan. There are two reasons caused this result: on the one hand, the reason of Gatsby didn’t back in time is he want to come back

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Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger" (Fitzgerald 133). Tom knows Daisy will choose comfort and security of money over real love. Daisy views Gatsby as her past without tom. Gatsby's wealth was always a dream while Tom's wealth was always reality. Daisy being with Tom will secure her a spot in the famous and respected "old money" society whereas her being with Gatsby she will be surround by people like him with "new money" who wants to be accepted by those with "old money".

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