In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald tells about affairs, describes wealth, and tells about murder. There are three love affairs. One is Gatsby and Daisy and the other is Tom and Myrtle. Daisy cheats on Tom with Gatsby, Tom cheats on Daisy with Myrtle, and Myrtle cheats on her husband with Tom. In the end Tom and Daisy find out that they are cheating on each other. They blame everything on Gatsby and end up leaving town to get away from all the troubles they produced.
One of the main love affairs would be Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Daisy and Gatsby had been lovers before Daisy even met Tom. Daisy loved Gatsby and then he was sent off to war. Jordan told Nick that Gatsby wanted Nick to set up a get-together for him with his long lost love, Daisy (Baker). Nick agreed. He held the reunion at his house, but did not tell Daisy about Gatsby. Gatsby decorated Nick’s residence with a bunch of flowers to impress Daisy (Fitzgerald 84). Gatsby was very anxious to meet Daisy again. It had been five years since they had seen each other (Sutton). After Gatsby and Daisy met again, Nick leaves them unaccompanied to catch up on things. When Nick returned he could see that they still loved each other. After they talked for a while, Gatsby led Nick and Daisy through his colossal mansion next door.
The other main love affair would be Tom Buchanan and Myrtle. As Daisy, Tom, Nick, and Jordan were having dinner, Tom’s mistress called him. It was no secret that Tom was having an affair because Daisy and Miss Baker knew (Fitzgerald 15). Nick could tell that the telephone calls made Daisy awfully upset. After dinner Tom took Nick into town to visit a gas station that his mistress lived at. As Tom and Nick are leaving the gas station, Tom convinces Myrtle ...
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At first glance the story is about love but once you get a bit deeper the truth shines through. It’s about the fantasy of fulfilling unachievable dreams, the selfishness money invokes, and the violence associated with power. Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom never fulfill their potentials in life. They are either trying to achieve their unachievable dream, or they are to wrapped up in themselves and their money and power.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, there are multiple affairs. The affair that drives the novel is between married Daisy Buchanan, and her former lover Jay Gatsby. After being acquainted two years after Daisy had married Tom Buchanan, the two of them rekindled a love they had begun five years ago. Little did either of them know that their affair would lead to catastrophic consequences: a heartbreak, multiple deaths, and many ruined relationships.
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In all human life relationships are very important, and this is shown in many different aspects of human life . Relationships are so significant that Authors often use them as the revolving point of their stories. Such as in The Great Gatsby the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the different relationships as the revolving point in his story. Fitzgerald shows how the relationships between the couples in The Great Gatsby are similar in many different ways. The couples in The Great Gatsby are Gatsby and Daisy, Tom and Myrtle, and Myrtle and her husband. Each couple in this play has a dishonest relationship in which one or both are Unfaithful to their significant other.
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Although after reading “The great Gatsby” one may get a feeling of hopelessness, it one of those novels that leaves you inspired even long after reading it. It’s a masterpiece not only because of the thrillingly brilliant plot or memorable characters but also because of the life lessons that it teacher to the reader. It is not just a typical ...
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The Great Gatsby: Unfaithfulness and Greed. The love described in the novel, The Great Gatsby, contains "violence and egoism not tenderness and affection." The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, writes on wealth, love, and corruption. Two coupes, Tom and Daisy Buchanan and George and Myrtle Wilson, match perfectly with these categories. Both couples are different in the way they choose to live together, but are similar in a few ways. Unfaithfulness and greed are the only similarities the couples shared.
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