The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, has been the subject of much discussion throughout the history of its publication. Apart from the many media adaptations that have been made using Gatsby as its source material, the content of the book itself has been analyzed, scrutinized, and hypothesized. Many interpretations and theses have been made about Gatsby, and they are still being made today. However, notable forms of analysis, specifically those involving tools used online with a computer, have been around for a far shorter time than the entirety of Gatsby’s publication. Specifically, Voyant Tools, created in 2003, has only been utilized for the last 20 years, so there is an open world of ideas to explore using this technology. …show more content…
The contexts in which the word is used tell the clearest story of its significance throughout the novel. It is used several times by Gatsby, but surprisingly only in the past tense. He speaks to Nick about his past love for Daisy and his surprise that they both fell for each other. However, Gatsby’s obsession with the present is to have Daisy admit she never loved her husband Tom. In the scene in chapter seven where the characters argue about this, Tom says he loves Daisy, but Gatsby does not. It appears that while Gatsby did have love for Daisy at one point, he is chasing after something that no longer exists; he is chasing after a love that disappeared as soon as he was drafted into the war. The use of the word “love” ramps up throughout the novel with a peak in chapter seven, with a crescendo in the last two chapters. The phrase “love you” is used three times in the novel, twice by Daisy and twice by Gatsby. Following the pattern, Daisy is directly telling Gatsby she loves him in those two instances, while Gatsby is telling Tom that his wife never loved him. It is clear, especially in the closing chapters, that Gatsby’s feelings for Daisy are put on the back burner in favor of the jealousy and inferiority he feels in comparison to