Love and Commandment Number Six in The Great Gatsby
In the story The Great Gatsby, the word love is used a great deal. But of all the times, is it ever used in the proper and true manner? The story makes you think a great deal about love, marriage, and in a way relationship with God. By relationships with
God I mean, that in the commandments, number six, is thou shall not commit adultery.
First of all, Tom and Daisy are married so they should be loyal and faithful to each other, especially because of the fact they have a daughter. However in the story we find out that this is not true at all. First of all, in chapter one we find out that Tom has another girlfriend and has been seen around with or more than one occasion by different people.
Then in chapter two we find more about Tom and his girlfriend as we get to meet Myrtle for the first time in the story. Myrtle is the person who Tom has been sneaking around with. We find out that Tom and Myrtle do not like the people they are married to but for some reason or another they do not want to leave the other person. However Tom is not the only one to blame because we find out later that Daisy and Gatsby at one time were really close. We also find out that Daisy is the object of Gatsby’s desire and will do anything to get her back, because he loves her that much. Also as the story continues we find out that Daisy is prepared to move in with Gatsby except for one minor detail. That minor detail is their daughter and the feelings that Daisy has for her. That is probably the first and only mention of what is right in the whole story in terms of love.
As far and Daisy and Tom go they need to put their personal problems behind and worry about their daughter first. No matter how they feel about each other or how they feel about anyone else their daughter should be first priority. It makes you wonder if they fully understand what is going on in life around them. It is also curios to wonder what kind of virtues they were taught when they were young. Virtues like if they were taught to
The real question of the story is who is the one to blame for Gatsby’s death?
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Myrtle. Daisy loves Tom. Gatsby loves Daisy. George loves Myrtle. It´s quite the romance. At
At the hotel gathering, Gatsby struggles to persuade Daisy to confront her husband and she responds with “Oh, you want too much! . . . I did love him once--but I loved you too” (Fitzgerald 132). Daisy desperately tries to satisfy Gatsby but his imagination blocks his mind to such a degree that it eliminates his chances of learning how to comprehend reality. After Myrtle’s murder, Nick advises Gatsby to leave town but instead he realizes that “[Gatsby] wouldn’t consider it. He couldn’t possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do. He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn’t bear to shake him free” (Fitzgerald 148). No matter how hard Nick attempts to help him make the better choice, Gatsby continues to skew his priorities like a juvenile. Unfortunately for Gatsby, Daisy stays with Tom, a more secure and experienced adult, leaving Gatsby alone. As Gatsby’s life loses his vitality, he obviously needs learn how to act like an adult and survive in the world; but unable to accomplish this, Wilson kills him soon
As is well known, relationships can be complicated, but perhaps the most complicated of them all is marriage. We see this everyday: whether it might be with our relationships, others’ relationships, or relationships in books and movies. It is also strongly demonstrated through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work from the Roaring 20s, The Great Gatsby. The two primary but thoroughly flawed marriages are the Buchanans’ (Tom and Daisy) and the Wilsons’ (George and Myrtle). The Buchanans, though not in a perfectly happy relationship, are brought together by their similar natures. The Wilsons, in contrast, have a far more distant relationship. Both Daisy and Myrtle find themselves to be unhappy in their relationships, and eventually get caught in affairs.
In The Great Gatsby, James Gatz is a poor boy who falls in love with a beautiful, eccentric millionaire named Daisy Fay. In an attempt to gain her affection, he quickly recreates himself to mimic her wants in a man. He finds ways to be near her, even after she is married, and moves into the West Egg of Long Island. When Daisy and Gatsby finally meet again, the romanticism is short lived. After many nights together, Daisy prepares herself to tell her husband, Tom, that she is leaving him for Jay Gatsby. In the end, she panics and plans on dropping the topic, but a quick glance with Gatsby gives her feelings away. Daisy wants to ignore her feelings, but she fails to move past her relationship with Gatsby, which becomes evident to her friends. In the end, she chooses to stay with her husband despite her feelings; she does this because she believes that change would only cause more problems. Gatsby is crushed by her actions, but fails to realize the true extent of them. He continues to pester her with hopes of rekindling a relationship that ended years ago, but she refuses, and immediately moves away with Tom. This action drives Gatsby mad, and his utter devotion for Daisy is the last thought on his mind when Wilson kills him. Sara Teasdale, a poet in the 1900s, is scared of this kind of commitment; she knows that love for another will only bring about her own demise. Faced with depression and an illness that leaves her bed-ridden for much of her life, she is heavily dependent on others to survive. She becomes close with few friends because she does not want to burden them. When she must choose between two lovers, she picks Ernst Filsinger, despite her affection for another, just as Daisy does. These actions leave not only herself hur...
The author also showcases Gatsby infatuation with Daisy and the plans he has created for them
The love triangle of Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby comes to their emotional climax during the trip to New York. Gatsby’s long dreamt of plan is finally coming to fruition as Tom confronts him and Daisy about their apparent feelings for one another. In Gatsby’s mind, this is a moment that will bring Daisy to him as she finally can tell Tom she never loved him. Until this moment it seemed that it was a foregone conclusion that Daisy would proclaim her love for Jay Gatsby and they could start their romance over again. Yet, Daisy hesitates and attempts to talk around the statement that Gatsby expects her to make, “Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom. It wouldn’t be true” (Fitzgerald, 133). Daisy’s inability to say that she never loved Tom reveals a conflict that rages inside of her.
From the start of the novel we find out that Tom is cheating on Daisy with a women name There are a couple scenes where you can see that Myrtle is
Webster’s dictionary defines love as a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays a different meaning of love in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald displays that love is not condemned to be felt for one person, love can be grasped for objects or even more than one person at a time. Everyone loves someone or something. Although Daisy chooses her love for money over her one true love, Jay Gatsby, she should still be allowed to find or regain that love again.
Throughout history, a proven fact is that love can make many people do things that they had never imagined they would. It can turn honest people in to liars and the righteous to thievery. Love, while it is a superb feeling, can lead individuals down a dark path. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fizgerald, there are many examples of how someone can bend their own moral values. Love seems to motivate some of the characters to act out of the ordinary.
Love stories depend on two people that struggle to come together and prove chemistry between the two of them. F. Scott Fitzgerald presents many relationships throughout The Great Gatsby. The relationships don’t end like Disney movies with happy endings in this book, but there is love and a connection between the characters. The Great Gatsby can be called a love story because of the romantic relationships throughout the book.
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