Comparing The Love Song With Two Goldfish And The Great Gatsby

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The Love Song, With Two Goldfish relates to the Great Gatsby because the first poem is about two goldfish making love in a fish bowl amd the Great Gatsby has two people falling in love. The poem relates because it says about how love changes us as people and why do we fall in love and when people break our hearts how lonely we feel and that we tend to want to be by ourselves. I think Gatsby loved
Daisy but she was into another man, so she had it great for a little while but then she had to decide on what she wanted in life and chose between the two men. I feel like in the end she was in love but also had that hard decision to make to keep on going on dates with Gatsby or if she wanted Tom. She left Gatsby for Tom which in the end left Gatsby

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