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What Is True Love In The Great Gatsby

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True love is a mysterious phenomenon, when one person loves another person unconditionally without any string attached whatsoever, something magical occurs.. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story narrated by Nick Caraway. The Great Gatsby begins with Nick going to his cousin Daisy’s home and from then on he is consumed in a journey where he tries to reunite Daisy and her previous lover Jay Gatsby. The theme of love in The Great Gatsby is very prevalent and is used throughout the book. The characters of Tom, Daisy, Myrtle, and Gatsby are used to emphasize the theme of love time and time again. Fitzgerald uses the relationships between Tom and Daisy, Tom and Myrtle, and Daisy and Gatsby to show how true love is an illusion.
When we are introduced to Tom and Daisy Buchanan, we are also introduced to their relationship and how it has a strain on their lives. Jordan Baker comments on the fact that Tom has, “...got some woman in New York”(Fitzgerald 15). This mystery woman who Fitzgerald conveys to us in the first …show more content…

He had been the one man whom Daisy loved and he imagines himself and Daisy getting back together again. Gatsby is trying to convince himself that Daisy loves him and that she will leave Tom for him but he soon finds out that she would never leave her husband. Daisy even shows her love for both men when she says that, “I did love him once—but I loved you too”(Fitzgerald 132). When Gatsby says that, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me”(Fitzgerald 130). Gatsby himself shows how Daisy is truly is as a person, she only loves people for their monetary value and nothing more. Gatsby is under the false impression that Daisy loves him in the present when she says that she cannot leave Tom. Gatsby shows a sense of doubt on whether or not he has been Daisy’s true love or if he has fallen for the trap that true love

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