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The Great Gatsby Thesis

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The Assassination of Passion:
The Great Gatsby's Lessons for Teenagers on the Downfalls of Love
Introduction
Love is something that can hardly be described. There are many different feelings of love, whether it is towards a friend, a family member, or a significant other. The extent to which people go for love has been known to society as one of the most heartwarming and entertaining things to witness and hear about. In The Great Gatsby, readers get the pleasure of witnessing Jay Gatsby give up his life for Daisy Buchanan, the supposed love of his life. The assassination of Gatsby's passion and life was the end of a tragic love story. The demise of Gatsby teaches teenagers the valuable lesson that love is not as picture perfect as shown in …show more content…

He gave up his future for a girl who he ended up dying for, while she gave up nothing and instead moved on with her life. Moving on to college or a first full time career is a huge milestone for teenagers. Often adolescents are in committed relationships when they must decide about their future. Although love can be grand and unforgettable, a person is only given so many opportunities to build a future for themself. Teens should not turn down a once in a lifetime acceptance to a major college or a dream job for a relationship that is completely built on dreams and has no connection to reality. Teenagers need to remember that first loves are not the end all be all, there will be other opportunities in life, and one should not be held down because of the possibility of something great far in the …show more content…

Once Gatsby and Daisy reunited, the two were happy and Gatsby continued to envision their future together. He waited for Daisy to tell her husband Tom, that she no longer loved him and instead wanted to be with Gatsby. When Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy all went to Manhattan together, Daisy was supposed to admit her “true” feelings to Tom, but instead she said something that hurt Gatsby all the way through to his heart. “I did love him once—but I loved you too,” Daisy told Gatsby as she admits to loving both Tom and Gatsby throughout her life (Fitzgerald 81). This news was not taken lightly by Gatsby as he had originally thought he was her only love. Gatsby was so blinded by the possibility of a grand love story that he had dreamed of for so many years, he did not accept or even realize that Daisy had changed. She had started a family of her own and through the time they experienced apart, Daisy had fallen in love again. Gatsby was blinded so greatly by his fantasies that in the long run he ended up more heartbroken than before. Through Gatsby's experience teenagers can learn to look at and evaluate all aspects of their

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