True Love or False Love

“ If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools,” said by Katherine Mansfield. True love and false love is something many people can’t tell the difference from at all. They think that love is love but that’s not really the truth. Love can either be true or false, and in the book The Great Gatsby, the characters have a big problem knowing what is what. The theme in Great Gatsby is that people may take advantage of the idea of love rather than have a true feeling.

Jay Gatsby is one of the characters that can’t tell the difference between true or false love. Gatsby and Daisy were to be in love but then Gatsby had to go to war and Daisy decided to move on. Daisy got married to Tom but Gatsby was still in love with Daisy. Since he was still in love with her, Gatsby had many dreams and ideas about how things should be. On page 92 it said, “He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end.” Throughout the book, Gatsby says he is in love with her, but it is more like he is in love with the idea of the old Daisy. Gatsby’s head is so into the past he doesn’t see the new Daisy. He wants things to go back to the past and believes it can. In the book on page 110 it said, “ He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.” Gatsby just couldn’t get over the whole idea of Daisy that he pretty much lived in the past in his head. So Gatsby couldn’t see that he was in love with the idea of Daisy, not the real Daisy. He was just taking advantage of the idea of Daisy’s love. To Gatsby, the idea of Daisy’s love is everything. Ideas and dreams is what Gatsby lives off and it is not true...

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...fternoon, and taken baggage with them.” It was as if she left Gatsby forever. Not even caring that she is leaving with Tom and not even say good-bye to Gatsby. It showed that she never was truly in love with Gatsby himself, more like the rich and powerful man he was. Daisy leaving with Tom was a final indicator she has chose Tom over Gatsby.

Throughout the book, The Great Gatsby, not even a single character could tell the difference between true and false love. Yes, it would be nice if at least one character could tell the difference as people can tell mushrooms from toadstools. Figuring out true and false love from each other must be one of the hardest things to do for Gatsby, Tom, Daisy and even Myrtle. They all believe they know what is what, but in reality they are all fools. Fools that all leave their life full of false love.

Works Cited

The Great Gatsby