“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes” (Vladimir Nabokov).
2. This quote parallels the way Gatsby built up the memory of Daisy and him for five years.
3. The Great Gatsby, published in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel was written about the time of the roaring twenties when there was much prosperity and also corruption of morals. It was also a time period of when new money was looked down upon by families of old money in which they inherited from their relatives. Intellectual empathy is the ability to completely see another person’s viewpoint or reasoning aside from one’s own.
4. The story begins when the narrator Nick Carraway moves next to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and then reveals that Gatsby has been in love with Daisy for five years. After Daisy and Gatsby reconnect they start to have an affair. After Gatsby and Daisy reveal their affair to Tom, Daisy then decides to stay with Tom and then on the way home Daisy hits Myrtle with a car and kills her. At the end of the story Wilson shoots Gatsby thinking he was the person Myrtle was cheating on him with and then kills himself. Gatsby is obsessed with Daisy because he thinks that she is the envision of wealth and status because she is in a high social class.
5. In both of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s stories, both the main characters are obsessed with obtaining the women out of their social class.

Throughout the novel Gatsby