What Is Daisy's Love In The Great Gatsby
Gatsby shows great and immense love for Daisy. He does everything he can to get her to be with him. Gatsby becomes ridiculously rich and powerful so he can be what she wants. To achieve his mass wealth Gatsby does many shift and shady deals with Meyer Wolfshiem. He buys a house across from hers to be closer to Daisy,"Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald 83). He throws huge extravagant parties to get his name known to the wealthy people. He creates an image of himself the goes through the area. He throws these parties in the hopes one day Daisy will wander in.
Gatsby obviously loves Daisy more than anything in the world. His love can be associated with obsession but not in a completely negative way. Fitzgerald set a positive tone with Gatsby conveying that he is just deeply in love with her. Gatsby believes she deserves better than Tom. Deserves a man who will truly love her and not cheat. Someone to marry not just for social statues. …show more content…
The two of them have a different degrees of affection towards each other. Gatsby deeply cares for so much he becomes obsessed. Neither of them are in a healthy or stable relationship and it tears them apart. Daisy has strong feelings for Gatsby, but she does not know what to do with these feelings. Because of Daisy indecisiveness he argues with Daisy, telling her to leave Tom and say she never once loved him, "Just tell him the truth-that you never loved him-and it’s all wiped out forever," (139). He pictures Daisy as his property and no one other than him can have his property. Gatsby tries to get Daisy through force, by telling Tom that she never loved him. This new obsession has grown out of jealously and the idea he can not have her to himself. Gatsby's deep love for Daisy has changed into a unhealthy
Gatsby obviously loves Daisy more than anything in the world. His love can be associated with obsession but not in a completely negative way. Fitzgerald set a positive tone with Gatsby conveying that he is just deeply in love with her. Gatsby believes she deserves better than Tom. Deserves a man who will truly love her and not cheat. Someone to marry not just for social statues. …show more content…
The two of them have a different degrees of affection towards each other. Gatsby deeply cares for so much he becomes obsessed. Neither of them are in a healthy or stable relationship and it tears them apart. Daisy has strong feelings for Gatsby, but she does not know what to do with these feelings. Because of Daisy indecisiveness he argues with Daisy, telling her to leave Tom and say she never once loved him, "Just tell him the truth-that you never loved him-and it’s all wiped out forever," (139). He pictures Daisy as his property and no one other than him can have his property. Gatsby tries to get Daisy through force, by telling Tom that she never loved him. This new obsession has grown out of jealously and the idea he can not have her to himself. Gatsby's deep love for Daisy has changed into a unhealthy