Jay Gatsby's Only True Love

Jay Gatsby's Only True Love

In many successful novels, one characters love or obsession with another, often times leads to their success, their failure, and sometimes both successes and failures. In F. Scott Fitzgeralds great american novel, The Great Gatsby, we see that Jay Gatsby's ;ove for Daisy Buchananleads to his rise in fortunes, and equally his demise to isolation. Fitzgerald shows the reader that Daisy was Gatsby's one and only love through his obsession for her. This obsessiion inturn shows Gatsbys success in attaining Daisy's love, and also how that obsession for Daisy's love kept his life isolated from others.

Jay Gatsby's only true love throughtout the novel is Daisy Buchanan. Though they loved eachother in the past, Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan. This obsession for Daisy's love for him, is what causes Gatsby to still want to be qith Daisy. We can see this when Jordan is telling Nick about Gatsby's past. Jordan says, “Gatsby bought the house ho that Daisy will be accross the bay” (76) This quote shows how Gatsby wants to be close to Daisy and he watches over her from afar. Through his attempts to be even closer to her, he throws lavish parties. Through these parties, we discover Gatsby's desire to be with Daisy when Jordan informs Nick, “I think he half expects her to wander into one of his parties one night.” (77) This suggests that Gatsby doesnt want to meet new people but wants to reunite with Daisy. When Gatsby is finally with Daisy, he tries to win her love back by showing off his many posessons/ Gatsby gloats of his posessions by saying “I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of the at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.” (89) This proves Gatsby is trying to gain her love through material posessions because he is boasting about his wealth so she would want to be part of it. Jay Gatsby shows us his love for Daisy through his obsession of recieving her love in return.

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