Obsession In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the story of a murder mystery and tragic love story. This novel includes Jay Gatsby who is in love with Daisy Buchanan, who is married to Tom Buchanan. Gatsby shows a great deal of obsession for Daisy and the past within this book, as he was dating Daisy before he left off for WWI. Gatsby's obsession that has for the past, leads him to be unsatisfied with the present and Daisy being so far from him. As for Daisy, once Gatsby comes back into her life she starts to wish that she had lived a life with him instead of Tom. Within the novel, both Daisy and Gatsby show dissatisfaction with their lives.
Firstly, since Gatsby has been in love with Daisy for years now he has wasted his life chasing

Almost five years! There must have been some moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams not through her fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion"(Fitzgerald 95). This explains how over the years Gatsby has created a fictional image of Daisy. Also, since now he has Daisy, he is dissatisfied because she is not the perfect girl that he built her up to be. While Gatsby and Nick are talking about the past Gatsby starts to speak about how he wants to past to be the present once again. As Gatsby angrily shouted, "Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'why of course you can!' he looked around him wildly as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out the reach of his hand.' I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before' he said, nodding determinedly. 'She'll see." (Fitzgerald 110). This shows how desperate Gatsby was for the past to be the present and shows how disilliousal he is about this whole situation. Also showing dissatisfaction because Gatsby isn't happy with his life as it is and wants to relive the past which can't happen.

Firstly, Daisy shows her unhappiness with her own life when she starts to sob when Gatsby is throwing his beautiful shirts down at her. As Daisy cries, "they're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before"(Fitzgerald 92). As this Scene plays out, Daisy lies to Gatsby telling him false reasonings for her tears. This is because she doesn't want to admit that she is realizing that she missed a life to be with Gatsby and that she is unhappy and maybe even unsatisfied with her choices. She chose to deal with this feeling by keeping a secret and romantic relationship with Gatsby. Another time when Daisy was disillusioned was when she found out the truth about Gatsby's wealth from Tom. As Daisy shrieked, "Please, Tom! I can't stand this anymore.' Her frightened eyes told whatever intentions, whatever courage she had, were definitely gone"(Fitzgerald 134). When Daisy said this, it then that she realized that Gatsby's whole life story had been a lie and that he was lying to her the entire time. She feels disillusioned by this information, and so even though she was feeling closer to Gatsby before, so much so that she was going to leave Tom, she now is closer to Tom and chooses him. Another time when Daisy was unhappy and dissatisfied in the novel was