The Great Gatsby Requited Love

The Great Gatsby is a tragic love story. Most marriages in The Great Gatsby are loveless, frigid, and therefore littered with infidelity. Daisy Buchanan’s husband has a mistress and she decides she deserves a lover too. When Jay Gatsby declares his long lost love for Daisy, she is captivated by the excitement. Daisy whom is attracted to luxury is enthralled by Gatsby’s affluence. Regardless of motive, in chapter five and specifically in pages 108 to 110 requited love is realized for Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and the flowers in Gatsby’s garden all convey Daisy and Gatsby’s love.

Jay Gatsby devotes his entire life to winning Daisy Buchanan back. He is deeply in love with her and spends numerous hours preparing for their encounter.

When she first sees his mansion, she shrieks pointing “that huge place there?” (Gatsby, 108). Evidently, Daisy is amazed at the size of his building. Daisy’s fascination with Gatsby’s home demonstrates her nature of materialism causing her to fall in love with Gatsby. Moreover, while touring the mansion Daisy becomes more and more excited as she sees the possibility of living with Gatsby in such an extravagant home. When Daisy arrives in his bedroom, emotions stir. When Gatsby flaunts his imported wardrobe especially his remarkable collection of shirts, Daisy becomes overwhelmed. She cried, “Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the think folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.” (Gatsby, 110). In reality, Daisy is not infatuated with the shirts—or weeping over—the shirts from England. Her strong emotional reaction comes from her obsession with Gatsby having the proper wealth, and perhaps remorse over the complexity of the situation; he is finally a man she would be happy to marry, but she is already wed to Tom. This seemingly simple conversation about innocuous shirts represents the magnitude of Daisy’s love for Gatsby. Daisy’s visit to Gatsby’s home makes her recognize that Gatsby is her true