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The Great Gatsby Love Quotes

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The Lesson of Clueless Love in The Great Gatsby Danielle Dexter, author of the novel "Stupid Love", once wrote "The only thing that kept me going was knowing how easily I could have stayed with someone that wasn’t right for me. How I could have easily settled and accepted my life for what it was rather than what it could be.” This quote is the inverse of Gatsby's thinking in the novel, "The Great Gatsby". "The Great Gatsby", was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the April of 1924. Fitzgerald grew up in Minnesota and began writing short stories in high school. "The Great Gatsby" follows our main character, Nick, as he meets Jay Gatsby, his extremely wealthy neighbor. Gatsby is trying to win back the love of Daisy, Nick's cousin and Gatsby's ex-lover, while trying to fight back against Tom, Daisy's husband who cheats on her with a mistress. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's dedication to fixing his relationship with Daisy to reveal that love can blind you and make you oblivious to what is happening around you. To start off, Gatsby wanting to run away with Daisy, when she has a life already in the West Egg. Gatsby tells Nick about how …show more content…

On the way home from the hotel, Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, hits Tom's mistress, Myrtle. Gatsby says he'll take the blame for the death of Myrtle, therefore Daisy doesn't have to be arrested. Tom finds out and tells George Wilson, the husband of Myrtle. Enraged with the death of his wife, George shoots Gatsby in the pool. In the next chapter, Tom tells Nick one day passing by, "'That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s, but he was a tough one.' (Fitzgerald 136)" This reveals that because Gatsby would do anything for Daisy, he takes the blame, which results in him getting killed. If he stopped thinking about the imaginary future scenario with Daisy, he might've been able to save his life, and wouldn't have died in such a sad

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