Examples Of True Love In The Great Gatsby

True Love or True Lust?

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate” (Fitzgerald 54). There is no such thing as a perfect relationship. Every relationship has its problems. Some problems may be more severe than others. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters definitely have copious relationship problems. Some may say that all of the characters are just not meant to be together, or everything would of gone find if Gatsby didn’t exist. Despite some critics saying contrarily, each character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby personal affairs are haunted by a deep rooted despair of intimacy, keeping them from forming positive relationships with their loved ones.

Tom’s affairs with other women are the first dissolute relationship in the novel. A call from one of the women Tom was cheating on Daisy with during the dinner with Nick and Jordan is one of the first signs of something awry in Tom and Daisy’s relationship. Daisy becomes suspicious almost immediately and is observably distraught. He also cheated on Daisy in Santa Barbara before, forcing them to move to New York, which is revealed later in the novel. Tom cheating makes Daisy rightfully paranoid that anytime she is not with Tom he may be

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby personal affairs are haunted by a deep rooted despair of intimacy, keeping them from forming positive relationships with their loved ones. Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Jordan and Nick all have a fear of intimacy in both the novel and that is symbolized in the movie through its flashy effects. This fear causes each character to either evacuate New York or succumb to death in their attempts of self fulfillment. Without this fear Tom and Daisy would never have to cheat on each other, allowing them to raise their daughter together, with nobody perishing in the process. Altogether this would leave them all alive and well, leaving them able to have a greater