The Great Gatsby Research Paper

The Great Tragic Love Story Love is a beautiful thing when left to flower, but when squashed, becomes stained with mud. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is fighting for the love of Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy are flower buds waiting to bloom. Gatsby does everything he can to impress Daisy and win her to his side. Tom squashes the flower before it can bloom. Even when Gatsby dies, he still believes in his dream of Daisy. The Great Gatsby is a great tragic love story because Gatsby fights for Daisy’s love through every obstacle he encounters. Gatsby is a man driven by dreams, he finds what he wants and doesn’t stop until he has it. Gatsby bought a house in West Egg, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the Bay”(78).

While Daisy, Nick, and Gatsby are meeting, Gatsby states that he wants, “Daisy to come over to my house”(89). The house of Gatsby is a prized possession that Gatsby shows off to the world, but more importantly, Gatsby uses the house to impress Daisy. Tom attacks Gatsby’s character, making another obstacle for Gatsby to pass, calling him a “common swindler” and how he would “steal the ring he put on her finger”(133). While Tom attacks Gatsby, he begins to defend himself. Gatsby was desperate to save their love and he started “defending his name against accusations”, even ones that “had not been made”(134). Gatsby begins to lose Daisy, but he refuses to give up his sanguine dreams about their love. Gatsby wishes that Daisy would still come to him, “I suppose Daisy’ll call too, He looked at me Anxiously”(154). Gatsby never gives up on his dreams of Daisy. This story is a tragic love story, even though Daisy doesn’t love Gatsby anymore, he tried his hardest to win her over. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, putting a rift between her and