Love; an intense feeling of affection. It brings an array of emotions that no person can make another feel by waving around their wealth. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the theme that money cannot buy love. Gatsby’s love for Daisy throughout the novel remains substantial, but his efforts to impress Daisy with his hefty house, and polished clothing fail to fill what Gatsby wants most; Daisy's love and affection. There is nothing more powerful than money, with the exception of love, but Gatsby’s fortune is not enough to win Daisy’s heart, and Tom’s money is not enough to maintain his relationship with Myrtle.
Before Gatsby goes off to the war he fills his heart with love for Daisy, and is determined to come back as …show more content…
Gatsby returns to the war and still has no money, so he finds his way into a business that makes him filthy rich. However, Daisy finds new love with a more well-off and prosperous man named Tom Buchanan. Despite the marriage of Daisy and Tom, Gatsby puts up a fight for the love of Daisy, which reunites them together and reminds Daisy what once use to be her life. Since Gatsby knows that Daisy is fond of money, all his efforts go into impressing her. “It makes me sad because I have never seen such-such beautiful shirts before”(pg.92), Daisy explains. This illustrates that Gatsby is succeeding in impressing Daisy because of his wealth. She is clearly awed by his house and his wardrobe, and her excitement is so broad that her first reaction is to dance and show pure happiness. However, impressing someone and winning someone's love are two completely different spectrums, and Gatsby isn't able to lure in Daisy's affection, which causes his dream of a better …show more content…
Even though Tom is married to Daisy, it doesn't stop him from going after what he desires. He is having an affair with a girl named Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle and her husband live in the Valley of Ashes, and are very poor. However, all Myrtle wants is to be a rich woman who can wear fancy clothes and jewelry, and she knows that Tom is the exact person to provide her with all the riches that she wants, so she uses Tom to reach her American Dream of being an upper class women. Tom buys Myrtle materialistic items, which is proved when Myrtle states, “I want to get one of those dogs. I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have-a dog”(pg.27). Tom, buys her the dog so that they could have a dog for the apartment. Therefore, it is demonstrated that Tom buys Myrtle anything that delights her. In the end though, Tom does not buy Myrtle out of her marriage with Wilson, and he does not win her true love. “ He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick”(pg.124). Wilson explains to Tom that Myrtle and him have decided to move west. At that very moment Tom feels betrayed because has done so much for Myrtle and now she is gone. She is faking all of her feelings for him so that she can get one step closer to her American Dream, So in the end, Tom is not able to purchase
Before Gatsby goes off to the war he fills his heart with love for Daisy, and is determined to come back as …show more content…
Gatsby returns to the war and still has no money, so he finds his way into a business that makes him filthy rich. However, Daisy finds new love with a more well-off and prosperous man named Tom Buchanan. Despite the marriage of Daisy and Tom, Gatsby puts up a fight for the love of Daisy, which reunites them together and reminds Daisy what once use to be her life. Since Gatsby knows that Daisy is fond of money, all his efforts go into impressing her. “It makes me sad because I have never seen such-such beautiful shirts before”(pg.92), Daisy explains. This illustrates that Gatsby is succeeding in impressing Daisy because of his wealth. She is clearly awed by his house and his wardrobe, and her excitement is so broad that her first reaction is to dance and show pure happiness. However, impressing someone and winning someone's love are two completely different spectrums, and Gatsby isn't able to lure in Daisy's affection, which causes his dream of a better …show more content…
Even though Tom is married to Daisy, it doesn't stop him from going after what he desires. He is having an affair with a girl named Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle and her husband live in the Valley of Ashes, and are very poor. However, all Myrtle wants is to be a rich woman who can wear fancy clothes and jewelry, and she knows that Tom is the exact person to provide her with all the riches that she wants, so she uses Tom to reach her American Dream of being an upper class women. Tom buys Myrtle materialistic items, which is proved when Myrtle states, “I want to get one of those dogs. I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have-a dog”(pg.27). Tom, buys her the dog so that they could have a dog for the apartment. Therefore, it is demonstrated that Tom buys Myrtle anything that delights her. In the end though, Tom does not buy Myrtle out of her marriage with Wilson, and he does not win her true love. “ He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick”(pg.124). Wilson explains to Tom that Myrtle and him have decided to move west. At that very moment Tom feels betrayed because has done so much for Myrtle and now she is gone. She is faking all of her feelings for him so that she can get one step closer to her American Dream, So in the end, Tom is not able to purchase