The Theme Of Love In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

As Nick and Gatsby are talking about Gatsby’s relationship, Gatsby convincingly states to nick, “ Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘ why of course you can! I 'm going to fix everything just the way it was before, she see” (Fitzgerald 110). Gatsby is hopeful towards re creating his and Daisy’s past that he is often blind to the reality of things.

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 189). Nick Carraway moves to New York in a search for opportunity and lands a spot in west egg next door to jay Gatsby. Nicks cousin Daisy lives in East egg with her husband tom Buchanan. Daisy’s best friend Jordan Baker falls in love with Nick and spills some news about Tom’s side lover Myrtle. The love triangles continue and stories unfold throughout the novel about Gatsby’s former life.

They were once in love, before the war. But, after Gatsby leaves Daisy finds a new man. A man with money that could give her anything she desired. Everything except love that is. Gatsby could give her love at the time, but not money.

She seems to be asking her father for his time even though he has no more to give. She has previously been neglected by her father and she feels that she deserved more of his time. It becomes obvious that the speaker has yearned for a relationship with her father for a long time when she says, “i wish you were rich so i could take it all”(line 10). She longs for some time with her father and wishes that he had more time so she could have a relationship with him. The relationship between the speaker and her father has seemingly been nonexistent her entire life meaning that he was not

She has clearly moved on because she is married to, “the polo player,” Tom Buchanan (Fitzgerald 111). Although, Gatsby, like Tom, does not think it is wrong to sneak around with a woman who is already committed to someone else because “he felt married to her” (157). Gatsby’s statement about feeling married to Daisy causes the reader to further understand Gatsby’s profound love for her, but leaves them wondering how his love could have been that great when he had only been with Daisy for a couple of months prior to them being separated. When Tom, Daisy, Nick, Gatsby, and Jordan are all having a party in town, Gatsby then tries to pressure Daisy into saying that she never loved Tom, and if it weren’t for Gatsby having to leave, she wouldn 't be married to him. Gatsby “wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: I never loved you”

“‘Even that’s a lie,’ said Tom savagely. She didn’t know you were alive. Why- there’re things between Daisy and me that you’ll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget.” (Fitzgerald 132). Even when Tom knows that Daisy is cheating on him with Jay Gatsby, he contends his marriage and fights for her.

Nick is the only one that understands the reality in the book. He states: His is proving that Nick is the only one in the book with the eyes of reality. However Gatsby’s illusions are now his reality. Because of all the parties, the drinking, trying to get Daisy, and all the cheating and lying Gatsby created an illusion that is the life of misery and uncertainty that turns into his reality thus leading him to lose his illusions. So even with the illusion lost he still ends up with the same ending that leads to his

When Jody left him, he found that he had nothing to work for anymore. Even though, Johnathan was a drinker, he drank because he was under so much pressure to work to impress his wife and give his family what they needed. Nick should have taken it upon himself to accept his father into his home and not just watch him deteriorate slowly. Nick had several chances to engage in conversation with his father but never did. It is not Jonathan’s fault for where he and Nick stand, because in his point of view he probably is under the impression that Nick does not like him anymore.

When Rex and his family moves to Welch he changes from before and becomes really irresponsible. When Jennette and Rosemary are arguing about if Rosemary should leave Rex,things got heated and Jennette walked off and then Lori went and talked to her and said “She needs to be firmer, lay down the law for dad instead of getting hysterical all the time,” (Walls,208). This quote shows that Rex walks all over Rosemary so that he can get it his way and chose no be irresponsible. Rex doesn't understand that he needs to help his family and that he can’t keep on stealing money and expect everyone to be happy with him. Rex Walls can’t save himself or his family because of how irresponsible he is.

Everett escaped jail even though he only had two weeks left, just to see his children. Penny was not excited to see him at all. So once he approached her she tried her best to make his seem unwanted. In O’Brother, Penny did not want Everett to come back home and when he did she was unhappy and ashamed because she got engaged again. Meanwhile In Odyssey, Penelope was hope and knew that Odysseus was coming home and when he did she was excited he was there.

Everyone has moments where they desire to revisit the past- correct a mistake, relive the excitement, change what could have been. We all have moments like that. It might be a fleeting feeling or a consistently recurring thought, but seldom do we dedicate ourselves to the unattainable and changing times. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the plight of Jay Gatsby and his attempt to bring back the past is explored. He aggressively, or arguably, passionately fights to regain what once was.

The quality of greatness plays a big part in The Great Gatsby hence the title, The Great Gatsby. Everyone perceives greatness differently, but what distinguishes perceived greatness from actual greatness? In The Great Gatsby, Nick determines that Gatsby is great, but there can be a difference between perceived greatness and actual greatness. In the story Nick sees Gatsby as great.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, it appears that religion is all but absent, having no role in the lives of the characters. Instead of following a God, the people of East Egg live life on their own accord, detached from any outlined rules of ethics and morality. However, in reality God plays a key role in the character’s lives. This God, although not the traditional idea of divinity, is rather individual people and concepts that the characters worship as their own deity. Throughout the novel, the character’s piety is shaped by their own personal ideal of God that transcends the traditional boundaries of religion and ultimately corrupts them rather than offers them salvation.

Moreover, Fitzgerald continues the farming analogy by bringing in vivid descriptions of the valley “where the ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens.” The ideas defined are burn in to the reader’s conscious with the explicit disgust evoking analogy. The ashes are found just like the large fields of wheat that were formally found all around. The site is surely a recognizable one for most, but instead the astonishing view of the wheat waving around is replaced with the windy dusty fields. The burrows are mounted with the plague causing agents familiar to those acquainted with the

Continuously throughout this exquisite masterpiece of a novel, Fitzgerald prominently uses literary elements that assist in his unforgettable publishing. Throughout his writing many tones are taken note of, all of them changing rapidly and yet intertwining compatibly. Accordingly, Fitzgerald's text includes beautifully depressing aspects of drama combing with a sort of somber intelligence. Noticeably, even the blithe fragments of his writing always have an underlining sorrow to them. Imagery used paints a literary dream into the readers mind, from grand parties to the depression of the "Valley of Ashes", along with the highlights each of their dysfunctions.