The Great Gatsby Love Analysis

“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good” (Romans 12:9). If one were to claim to love another person, they would be considered a phony if that other being wasn’t always the first the person on their mind. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, love is portrayed as the reason every single person makes any conscious act. Love IS one’s drive and while different people have their own relationships and different interpretations of love, true love is sacrificial and sincere Gatsby truly is in love with Daisy because his love is pure and does anything he can to be within her grasp, even though the same cannot be said about Daisy loving Gatsby. His drive in life was to do nothing but to get her attention so they could start over together. This can be seen when Gatsby buying his house was for nothing other than to “...be just across the bay” (83) from Daisy. Gatsby often relates to the green light across the bay as his goal of achieving Daisy, as his dream was physically so close but it was emotionally a great distance away. The man truly is devoted to his life goal if he bought an entire house just to have the chance of spotting her and attracting her to his parties. It’s not just the matter of the house that is implausible, it is the road Gatsby had to take to obtain his wealth to be capable of …show more content…
Love is absolute and pure. Much of what is seen in The Great Gatsby is a physical representation of the ongoings of society. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald depicts Gatsby as the only person in the novel who is capable of true love. And such is true with all people; because there are only a select few people on this Earth that can be seen to truly love another person. On the flipside of true love, there is a great sense of false love in both the novel and in human nature. The way that Daisy and Tom treated their one another symbolizes all of the false compassion and antagonistic behavior between couples. True “Love must be sincere” (Romans