Motif In The Great Gatsby

There is not a day that goes by that Jay Gatsby does not think about his love, Daisy Buchanan, who he is greatly enamored by and for whom he uses many tactics to attract to him, causing it to seem as if his main concern in life was getting Daisy Buchanan back. He went through many trials and tribulations before he was finally satisfied with Daisy’s presence, but it wasn 't long until she was stripped away from him forever, “vanish[ing] into her rich house, into her rich, full life” (Fitzgerald 156). Many people who read The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, believe that Gatsby is a hopeless romantic, but when you further examine the way in which he goes about trying to reach out to the love of his life, can you truly say he is a

His parties had everything one could ever imagine in one place, except for him, and most people left the party “without having met Gatsby at all” (Fitzgerald 45). Many of the guests did not find it odd that the host was never around, but this piece of information is quite significant in supporting Gatsby’s motif in throwing the party in the first place. The reason why Gatsby was never around and mingling with his guests was because he was feverishly surveying the crowd for Daisy’s radiant face to appear, but, unfortunately, it never did. In addition, Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin, just so happened to be invited to one of Gatsby’s great parties even though “people were not invited-they went there” (45). If people did not get invited to Mr. Gatsby’s parties, then why was Nick? The logic behind that is Jay wanted to get more familiar with Nick so that he could take advantage of him by trying to get closer to Daisy as

She has clearly moved on because she is married to, “the polo player,” Tom Buchanan (Fitzgerald 111). Although, Gatsby, like Tom, does not think it is wrong to sneak around with a woman who is already committed to someone else because “he felt married to her” (157). Gatsby’s statement about feeling married to Daisy causes the reader to further understand Gatsby’s profound love for her, but leaves them wondering how his love could have been that great when he had only been with Daisy for a couple of months prior to them being separated. When Tom, Daisy, Nick, Gatsby, and Jordan are all having a party in town, Gatsby then tries to pressure Daisy into saying that she never loved Tom, and if it weren’t for Gatsby having to leave, she wouldn 't be married to him. Gatsby “wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: I never loved you”