How Does Love Change Throughout The Great Gatsby

To some love is a straight line, simple and easy, but The Great Gatsby shows us that love changes over time and the meaning changes from person to person. The Great Gatsby is a story where Nick Caroway follows Jay Gatsby/James Gatz, Tom Buchanan, and Daisy Buchanan. The three characters are locked in their own worlds when it comes to love and throughout the story, we see how their love withstands the ups and downs of the social circumstances which the characters go through. To some love is a straight line, simple and easy, but F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals how love in a general sense is warped by people in their circumstances and shows how love changes over time by the people who experience it.

In the story, it is revealed that Gatsby’s sense

Although Daisy can be seen this way is not quite true. When she married Tom a man with a similar social standing, who was unfaithful. Daisy was aware of this and seems to do very little to change their relationship. Tom gives some insight o why this is when he says "And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time." (Fitzgerald 31) When Tom says but I always come back, and in my heart, I love her all the time, a similar connection between their relationship and the relationship of royals in medieval times because Kings in that time commonly had mistresses. It seems that the security of money makes it so some things like unfaithfulness can be excepted. The structure of their relationship is like the preservation of old money status before love. So Daisy's sense of love is warped by her circumstances and as her relationship progressed her love changed. In the book we see the progression and the differences between old money and new money. Daisy shows us how old money affects her relationships. As the book progressed Gatsby was talking to Nick at the hotel before the incident with Myrtle. He said “‘Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it. . . . High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl. “(Fitzgerald 120) Daisy was born into wealth and so by that standard sticks with Tom. We know that her emotional connection to the relationship ended in the first chapter. So from this knowledge, it is the circumstances of her status that keeps her locked within. Daisy's