Gatsby: love or obsession Love is the most beautiful emotion that everyone should at least experience once in their life. It does not have a fixed definition, for each person experiences it differently, but in the end, lovers all do ordinary things when they are together. Love is holding each other’s hand tightly down the same path, is giving each other the warmest hugs, and is making the love one’s sadness disappears. Follow that, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald also portrays a love scenario between a guy named Gatsby and a girl named Daisy. Gatsby would try to be with Daisy after a long time of losing contact and would do anything to see her. That feeling Gatsby has towards Daisy is not love but just an attraction as part of his
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Later on in life, Gatsby has a chance to meet Daisy. He “overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons...and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor” (150). Gatsby is already an ambitious dreamer ever since he was small. He would schedule for his activities every day and have strict rules for him to follow, which shows how much ambition he has to become a successful man with fame and money. Now that he has come across Daisy, who represents wealth and glory, he eventually is attracted to her since it is human’s nature to desire something that they do not have. He thinks that this attraction to her is love, but little did he realize that what attracts him is her prosperity. Growing up as “a penniless young man without a past,” having money and fame is something that Gatsby always hopes for, and hard work pays off as he reaches his dream, which is to have Daisy, after never giving up (149). What is left is “again a green light on a dock,” and now “his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”(93). After he is back with Daisy, having her is not a dream anymore since she is a target for him to conquer, and once she is captured, it is over for him. Gatsby still wants Daisy by his side, not because of love, but as an accomplishment, a prize for the hard work he has done to achieve his
Later on in life, Gatsby has a chance to meet Daisy. He “overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons...and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor” (150). Gatsby is already an ambitious dreamer ever since he was small. He would schedule for his activities every day and have strict rules for him to follow, which shows how much ambition he has to become a successful man with fame and money. Now that he has come across Daisy, who represents wealth and glory, he eventually is attracted to her since it is human’s nature to desire something that they do not have. He thinks that this attraction to her is love, but little did he realize that what attracts him is her prosperity. Growing up as “a penniless young man without a past,” having money and fame is something that Gatsby always hopes for, and hard work pays off as he reaches his dream, which is to have Daisy, after never giving up (149). What is left is “again a green light on a dock,” and now “his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”(93). After he is back with Daisy, having her is not a dream anymore since she is a target for him to conquer, and once she is captured, it is over for him. Gatsby still wants Daisy by his side, not because of love, but as an accomplishment, a prize for the hard work he has done to achieve his