The Great Gatsby, the legendary novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set during the roaring twenties in New York City and the surrounding neighborhoods. The plot follows some of the most affluent and powerful people and their insurmountable quest to find genuine love. The characters must fight their social expectations and their own personal desires to obtain the love they crave. These two obstacles prove to be nearly impossible for the characters to overcome, and they resort to being with others for superficial reasons like wealth and power. In the novel The Great Gatsby love is not genuine, but is superficial and solely class based.
As seen in the relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, their love is based on Gatsby’s new found wealth and Daisy’s old money reputation. When the …show more content…
These shirts work as a symbol of Gatsby’s wealth, the only aspect of Gatsby that Daisy can use to justify her love for him. When daisy says she has “never seen such - beautiful shirts before” She suggests that the idea of Gatsby’s wealth is something she has “never seen”. In the previous years when Gatsby and Daisy were not in contact, Daisy did very little to hold on to the love that she and Gatsby had for each other. The superficial love is not exclusive to Daisy, Gatsby is guilty of it as well. When spending the afternoon with Gatsby and Daisy, Nick Carraway has a revelation about Gatsby’s dream. Nick narrates "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion."(#) Gatsby’s dream is to be part of the old money crowd, and Gatsby believes that the only
As seen in the relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, their love is based on Gatsby’s new found wealth and Daisy’s old money reputation. When the …show more content…
These shirts work as a symbol of Gatsby’s wealth, the only aspect of Gatsby that Daisy can use to justify her love for him. When daisy says she has “never seen such - beautiful shirts before” She suggests that the idea of Gatsby’s wealth is something she has “never seen”. In the previous years when Gatsby and Daisy were not in contact, Daisy did very little to hold on to the love that she and Gatsby had for each other. The superficial love is not exclusive to Daisy, Gatsby is guilty of it as well. When spending the afternoon with Gatsby and Daisy, Nick Carraway has a revelation about Gatsby’s dream. Nick narrates "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion."(#) Gatsby’s dream is to be part of the old money crowd, and Gatsby believes that the only