Simply put, true love can be defined as putting one's desires aside for another person as well as loving everything about them. Therefore can Gatsby, a man with ulterior motives who is obsessed with improving his status be truly in love with Daisy, a girl who is perceived as pristine and extremely wealthy? To be candid, his love is not “true” even though Gatsby is obsessed and yearns to be reunited with her.the novel portrays Gatsby as obsessed with Daisy and yearning to be reunited with her. Because despite this desperation being undoubtedly authentic, his motives and reasoning for wanting Daisy in the first place are hardly virtuous. Gatsby is a flawed character as he is consumed with acquiring wealth and higher social standing because of …show more content…
Again, Gatsby is using Daisy to serve his needs with little regard for how it affects her life. Gatsby doesn’t care that she has a husband and a successful life now, rather he’s jealous and/or angry that she hadn’t waited for him all those years ago. In the past, which this quote alludes to, Gatsby and Daisy were in the early stages of their relationship and had wanted to marry. However, this did not occur because Daisy’s parents refused to let someone of Gatsby’s inferior birth and social rank marry their daughter. Their refusal was the antithesis of what Gatsby envisioned himself as, and therefore he made it a point to prove everyone like her parents wrong. Everything he did, including buying the mansion across from Daisy’s house, was in the pursuit of winning her back and marrying her because that’s what a wealthy man would do. The marriage being stopped by her parents was a reminder for Gatsby of where he came from, and so each thing he did was to ensure that her parents were wrong and the only way to decisively do that was to win Daisy back. Taking into account the eagerness Gatsby has to return to the past, his motivations for reuniting with Daisy become not out of love but of greed and a desperate need to maintain the illusion he’s created over the