The relationships that intertwine with each other in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald all have motivations for either Love, Desire, or Sex. All the major relationships in the book are not stable and have their falling out periods. So begs the question, “What is love?” And “Does money buy love?” as it could be argued for the relationship between Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald’s writing has underlying messages in each and every single relationship mentioned in the novel and will be analyzed in this essay. In this novel, love is misrepresented and fails in each and every single relationship in “The Great Gatsby”, and ca The relationships in this novel cannot be talked about without talking about the first relationship we are introduced …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald. The very fabric of love pertains to the mutual accumulation of intimate feelings and true mutual endearing of one another. In the case of Tom and Daisy, well as Daisy and Gatsby this fails in the name of love. Tom and Daisy’s marriage was to carelessness and the same stature of wealth along with their social class. Their distancing during the development of the novel shows that they truly do not love each other for their qualities as people but the quality of their pockets and their name. Same can be said about Gatsby’s obsessive nature and his attraction to Daisy. The lopsided affair shows that Gatsby’s one true connection to Daisy was the ambition for a better wealthier life. As he values Daisy’s wealth and her ambition for a wealthier lifestyle. Gatsby places Daisy on a pedestal and very clearly is chasing a past that has moved on. Neither of the major relationships I have touched upon -- much rather any of the relationships in the book show any real example of love. As it is very clear that wealth cannot buy love from that significant other, and no one in this book was every truly in love with each other. We are then left with the combining of social statuses, and a deep obsession of the past as well as a dream