The Influence of Love
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, uses the influence and effects of love on a person to express what one may become during this quest, the measures one will take to obtain unconditional love, and the many differents choices one will make. Love itself is a very dangerous and beautiful element many people for centuries have desired and would do everything and anything for. Jay Gatsby and many other cast in The Great Gatsby were blinded by it thus making many harsh and skeptical decisions.
Gatsby is a boy that comes from a dirt poor family that he did not even consider to be his real family. The young boy soon ran away and became a man on his own. He had joined the military and was attending a sort of military camp where he had met the women he would love for the rest of his life to come, the very thing that will inspire him to keep moving forward; Daisy. After that day the two laid lips, Gatsby would forever be bound to this girl, as
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The Cyclopedia of Literary Places states “that obtaining his wealth he moved to West Egg”, and bought and threw numerous glitzy and riotous parties in his huge mansion right across the bay from the Buchanans hoping to acquire the attention of his representation of his greatest desire in life as Nina Protomastro describes her, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby had became close friends with Nick because he knew that was Daisy’s cousin, and that was his way to get to her. He finally got Jordan to tell Nick he wanted him to invite Daisy over to his house for to so he could just casually run onto her. F. Scott Fitzgerald explains how Gatsby sent gardeners to Nick’s house and mowed his grass, and fixed his bird bath and things, Gatsby was setting up the perfect reunion for him and Daisy. He was so desperate to have her love again he would do anything it takes to get her attention and spark up old