The Theme Of Love In The Great Gatsby

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The perfect love that turns into the perfect marriage. That’s what every young man and woman dream of;having a perfect life and family. An untainted picture of love never ends up as we want it, but its opposite often emerges. The ideal of love deceives us with our feelings and our actions when our eyes tricks us to thinking that it’s greener on the other side which isn't. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates that love is complicated.
In the book of The Great Gatsby, it shows that each character is missing something, or not satisfied with their partner. When they try to find that piece in affairs and illicit love, it ends up destroying their lives. Tom marries Daisy because she fulfills his life, but after meeting Myrtle, he changes his mind and has an affair. Daisy knows that Tom is cheating on her, but she puts up with it to keep their high status. If Daisy were to leave Tom, she would be looked down upon. One day Daisy finds out that Gatsby is now wealthy. After having tea with Gatsby, Daisy secretly visits Gatsby every afternoon. But when Daisy’s
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Daisy who is wealthy, falls in love with a man named Gatsby who is dirt poor. Since she has a high status, she leaves the man she loves and marries a wealthy man to maintain her high status. This demonstrates that Daisy had love but she chose to keep her reputation over the person she loved. Daisy gets into a situation where she has to pick the man she once loved and a man who she loves. She chooses to stay with the man she’s with because for security reasons and if she were to leave, she would be a disgraced by society. Even though she stayed with Tom, she admitted by saying she “never loved Tom”(Fitzgerald, pg. 133) in a pitiful voice. Tom never truly loved Daisy, he married her to build his own social status, that’s why Tom seeks love