Gatsby As A Romantic
Parties, wealth, and status, are the three things that made up the 1920s. Authors wrote about the American Dream a lot in this decade and a huge part of the American Dream was love. Every guy dreamed of having the perfect wife and every woman wanted the perfect husband. Love was idealized in a way to where now it could be kind of creepy and stalkerish but in the 1920s, it was how they expressed their love to each other. In the 1920s more and more people moved from their rural homes to city homes and partying became the new thing. Women were called flappers because of how they were changing in flamboyant ways such as, cutting their hair really short, showing more skin, and putting themselves out there for guys. F Scott Fitzgerald, …show more content…
Throughout the book, we learn that Gatsby and Daisy were at one point in time infatuated with each other and disappointingly Gatsby had to leave for war, leaving Daisy for 5 years. Daisy, being like any other woman during the 1920s, feels like she has to marry and cannot wait that long for Gatsby to get home so she marries a rich guy by the name of Tom Buchanan who later commits adultery with another married woman. Adultery was another major factor in the 1920s and it was in fact common for a man or woman to cheat on their spouse (The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love). Gatsby on the other hand, seemed loyal and showed Daisy in extravagant ways just how much he loved her and wanted to be with her. Some might think his acts are creepy and strange but isn’t he just trying to win back the person he thought he was going to spend the rest of his life with? If anyone was in love with a person as much as Gatsby is with Daisy then they would go to extreme measures to be with that person. Gatsby tries to swoon Daisy with his wealth because it is the only thing he thinks he has to win back his …show more content…
Everything Gatsby does for Daisy is what every girl fantasizes over. He is very romantic in the way he shows his love for her. Overall, The Great Gatsby is a wonderful book that describes a love story in a way that makes the reader either think, is this romantic, or just weird? After looking at the time period in which Fitzgerald wrote this book, which is the 1920s, it all starts to make sense. Gatsby is a romantic because in the 1920s being a little clingy and obsessed was how couples were. A woman in the 1920s longed for a man who admired her as much as Gatsby admired
Parties, wealth, and status, are the three things that made up the 1920s. Authors wrote about the American Dream a lot in this decade and a huge part of the American Dream was love. Every guy dreamed of having the perfect wife and every woman wanted the perfect husband. Love was idealized in a way to where now it could be kind of creepy and stalkerish but in the 1920s, it was how they expressed their love to each other. In the 1920s more and more people moved from their rural homes to city homes and partying became the new thing. Women were called flappers because of how they were changing in flamboyant ways such as, cutting their hair really short, showing more skin, and putting themselves out there for guys. F Scott Fitzgerald, …show more content…
Throughout the book, we learn that Gatsby and Daisy were at one point in time infatuated with each other and disappointingly Gatsby had to leave for war, leaving Daisy for 5 years. Daisy, being like any other woman during the 1920s, feels like she has to marry and cannot wait that long for Gatsby to get home so she marries a rich guy by the name of Tom Buchanan who later commits adultery with another married woman. Adultery was another major factor in the 1920s and it was in fact common for a man or woman to cheat on their spouse (The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love). Gatsby on the other hand, seemed loyal and showed Daisy in extravagant ways just how much he loved her and wanted to be with her. Some might think his acts are creepy and strange but isn’t he just trying to win back the person he thought he was going to spend the rest of his life with? If anyone was in love with a person as much as Gatsby is with Daisy then they would go to extreme measures to be with that person. Gatsby tries to swoon Daisy with his wealth because it is the only thing he thinks he has to win back his …show more content…
Everything Gatsby does for Daisy is what every girl fantasizes over. He is very romantic in the way he shows his love for her. Overall, The Great Gatsby is a wonderful book that describes a love story in a way that makes the reader either think, is this romantic, or just weird? After looking at the time period in which Fitzgerald wrote this book, which is the 1920s, it all starts to make sense. Gatsby is a romantic because in the 1920s being a little clingy and obsessed was how couples were. A woman in the 1920s longed for a man who admired her as much as Gatsby admired