Love In The Great Gatsby

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In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a very wealth well fit man. His major goal is to try and let Daisy Buchanan to fell in love with him. Love at first sight, Jay Gatsby experienced it when he first met his love, Daisy. The first moment Gatsby saw Daisy, his whole world changed. Both of them planed out the future like they had a clue. Unfortunately, Gatsby when to fight in World War One, Daisy made a promise that she will wait for Gatsby to return. Both kept sending letters back and forth to each other. Daisy’s parents decided that Daisy should get married, after a while there was no word from Gatsby; she agreed to get married to Tom Buchanan. Five years later, Gatsby returns from war and figures out that Daisy has left him and got married to Tom. Now Gatsby is doing all he can to try and get Daisy back. Jay Gatsby is having a hard time trying to figure out that even if he does win Daisy back, it won’t be the same as he had imagined it would be in the past. Jay doesn’t want to listen to the advices everyone is giving him. His life has been filled with unsustainable events; trying to repeat the past with Daisy, lying about his past, Myrtle’s Death, wanting Daisy for himself, trying to get Daisy back, and Daisy acting like she doesn’t care anymore. All of these factors affect what happen to Gatsby at the end. Gatsby is essentially an innocent victim (romantic idealist) who is destroyed by his inability to accept reality.
Daisy was having a rough time first; Gatsby, he wanted Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him; also she was in the Plaza Hotel, which was extremely hot over there. Daisy was
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And Daisy would not say a word of the truth, even though no one would believe that she killed

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