Examples Of Love In The Great Gatsby

True love means unconditional love, with no expectations or limitations set. It is intangible; we cannot touch it, we cannot hear it, we cannot see it. However, we can sense it through actions and words that lovers display. Love also comes in many forms; for instance, you can love your family, friends, food, money, etc. You can love people or materials. In F. Scott. Fitzgerald’s famous novel, The Great Gatsby, the concepts of love, desire, and sex are displayed through the relationships between the characters. Some relationships that have been shown to the readers so far are Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, and Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. All of these relationships are, in one way or another, very complicated and problematic. First of all, the marriage of Tom and Daisy Buchanan is very unstable and toxic. They both came from a wealthy family and married each other for convenience. Tom is a man with a very large ego who enjoys the idea of a beautiful and outgoing wife. Daisy is in love with the idea of a luxurious and lavish lifestyle and also loves a wealthy and well-connected man as a husband. The main similarity …show more content…
Throughout the novel, the obsession with materials covers up the fact that money cannot buy love or happiness like how Gatsby bought a large house and threw ginormous parties solely to impress Daisy. Most of the relationships in the novel are also just an “illusions of true love” for example, Tom and Daisy’s marriage for the social status and Gatsby’s imaginary pedestal of Daisy that she could not live up to. The Great Gatsby is often referred to as a “love story” when in fact, almost every relationship we see in the book says the opposite. No two couples were completely in love and every relationship seems to have some sort of restrictions or expectations