The Power Of Relationships In The Great Gatsby

“The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel that draws our attention to the power of relationships. There are many complex intertwined relationships happening simultaneously in this novel. Relationships extend beyond the human to human relations, the characters in the book have relationships with the general public, money, appearances, and many other items. This is part of the reason it is such an award book. Understanding the immense power of relationships starts with the Novel’s title “The Great Gatsby.” The distinguishing title starts off the book making this main character to be great and magnificent thus all of his relationship will take under this grand interpretation of him. The absence of Gatsby during his parties lets him …show more content…
She is the reason that Gatsby gets up in the morning. Daisy is an icon for perfection. From the having the voice of an angle to her so-called acute taste of men, she resonates in near perfection. Again this is how the public perceives her but is not the real Daisy. This example of Daisy, is showing that the relationship with society is usually a misnomer. She started a relationship with Gatsby a back during the war and left him searching for her since then. She is accidentally controlling Gatsby. Or is it with some purpose? She has strong opinions that are very rarely shown. It is possible that this is her way of sharing them. Instead of waiting for Gatsby, she marries Tom Buchanan proving that she has the power to decide her own fate in the relationships …show more content…
She is Nick’s cousin making us think that there would be no romance. However she has an magical voice, composed of gold that make her very likeable. Her voice creates its own relationship with anyone she meets. ”Her voice is full of money(120)” This presents the idea of attributes VS. the entire person. Daisy has a perfect voice that makes people like her, but everything about her is not admirable. The relationships that she has are based on her best attribute, her voice. But as the characters get to meet her they understand that her voice in not everything. In fact, it makes her less attractive because she only has this one trait, that her entire person relies on. Gatsby has a similar attribute, his smile. When Nick Carraway first truly meet Gatsby he described it as, “He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.(48)” If somebody got the chance to meet Gatsby, they would become entrapped by this smile, such as how Nick