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Love And Its Effects In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Zoey Schultz Mrs. Dorn Accelerated English 10 20 February 2023 Love and Its Effects in The Great Gatsby In the award winning novel The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote about themes of love including love of materialistic possessions, wealth, success, and one another. The Great Gatsby focuses on how materialistic possessions, wealth, and success do not always lead to happiness, but love to one another does. As the story unfolds, Gatsby throws luxurious, expensive parties but he is not happy because he can not have the one he loves. Although love is euphoric and exhilarating, love is also addicting and painful when consequences have to be faced. In the beginning of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerlad focuses on finding happiness …show more content…

At the climax of the story, Gatsby starts to tell Tom that Daisy never loved him and that she is going to move away with Gatsby. Tom did not take that information very well so he decided to tell Daisy about Gatsby's past. Gatsby did not want Daisy to think of him as a bad person so he began to defend himself: “It passed, and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made” (Fitzgerald 134). Fitzgerald uses conflict to create a plot twist in the story where Gatsby’s argument turned on him. After a fight broke out between Tom and Gatsby, Gatsby realized that his argument had been turned back on him. Tom had researched Gatsby's past to find out that he had a scary secret. Gatsby did not want Daisy to think that he was involved in sketchy business so he started to defend himself. The argument between Gatsby and Tom put a bad image of Gatsby in Daisy’s head which darkened their relationship. Later in the story when Wilson finds out about Myrtle’s affair, Fitzgerald gives the readers another example of how love can ruin relationships: “‘I've got my wife locked up in there,’ explained Wilson calmly, ‘She’s going to stay there till the day after tomorrow, and then we’re going to move away’” (Fitzgerald 136). Again, Fitzgerald uses conflict to show how love can ruin …show more content…

Love negatively affects the characters in The Great Gatsby when materialistic love was used to attract love for one another. Love had shocking effects in the novel because it showed how love can be well intentioned but it also ruins lives and how love causes more harm than it was intended to. The theme of love in The Great Gatsby shows how intentions of love can have horrific outcomes if they are not thought through entirely. The theme of love in this novel can relate to anybody around the globe that has felt how love can hurt. No matter if it is in a fictional world or reality, everybody will feel the powerful effects of

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