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The Great Gatsby Research Paper

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Is the novel “The Great Gatsby” a love story or something else? Are Gatsby and Daisy truly in love? When reading Great Gatsby, it’s easy to think the novel is full of forbidden romance between the central character, Jay Gatsby who desires to be with Daisy Buchanan, his former lover, and emotional warfare as the novel discusses longing, unfulfilled dreams, and desire. While these attributes contribute to the perception of the novel being a love story, the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy is more of an infatuation based on idealized fantasies, worldly desires, and the longing for their shared past, rather than genuine love. The love between Gatsby and Daisy is a mixture of genuine affection, idealization, and longing for the past. Nick, the novel's narrator and …show more content…

Another quote in the novel that hints at Gatsby’s idealization is when Nick states, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams- not through her fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. (pg 76)” There are two undertones of this quote as well, being: that Gatsby’s dreams of Daisy were based on what he remembered about Daisy and how he wanted to remember her. This is why Nick states Daisy being a little different than what Gatsby envisioned was not her fault, it was because of his illusion of her. This quote can also be interpreted as Gatsby thinking so highly of Daisy that even she couldn’t reach the full intensity of his feelings for her, which entails him putting Daisy on a pedestal that is too high and unrealistic. The version of Daisy in his head is not real, it’s like his own fairytale. While Gatsby ended up being murdered and not ending up with Daisy, there would have been many complications that would’ve prevented the two from being together regardless. The novel is set in the 1920s, when society’s expectations were traditional and

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