How Does Fitzgerald Present Love In The Great Gatsby

Lost Love

What is the definition of love? Is the same definition for everyone? Does everyone get to experience love? The way the stories are told everyone gets to experience love to its fullest. Those are the fairy tale stories that are dreamt not always lived out. Love ideally is consumed with loyalty, compassion, affection, happiness and comfort. Scott Fitzgerald portrays love through a married couple known as the Buchanan’s in the novel The Great Gatsby. The marriage is constructed over lost love within Tom and Daisy Buchanan.

Tom Buchanan the typical wealthy, arrogant, self-centered business man opinion of love is interpreted quite differently than the old stories, "And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree

and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time." (131). Old stories express the hate and distaste of affairs. The personality behind Tom allows him to feel neither regret nor guilt when he is with his mistress. Meanwhile his affairs is occurring his wife’s affairs is taking place as well this is reaction, "Self-control!" Repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.” (130).This statement emphasis his arrogates and his view on the oppression of women. That he is doing the same thing as his wife and she is the one in the wrong. That treatment is the reasoning behind her actions and his loss of love.
Daisy Buchanan born into a wealthy family and setting her hopes and dreams as a little girl.

Her future had a fairytale ending, finding her everlasting prince charming. What she didn’t know was that her prince charming wasn’t as well off as she was. Without that knowledge she fell in love. Then went separate ways, then finally followed faith and came into contact again, "Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you too." (132). Realizing that her prince charming has slipped out of her hands unless she does something about it. Her past relationship with Gatsby replays in her head expressed by Gatsby to Tom “there’re things between Daisy and me that you’ll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget.” (132). Along with Daisy’s lost love, it is the same for Gatsby, he is losing his everlasting love simultaneously. Gatsby insists that “Daisy’s leaving you” (133) to Tom. A tragic ends any farther thought or push for the fairytale to continue when Gatsby is found dead. There is ongoing, no closure, depressing lost love for Daisy

Buchanan.
“He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.” (91). Gatsby’s love for Daisy is everlasting he created his life and house all in the intention that he will finally get to be with her again, have their deserved happily ever after. Not everything in life can be planned out some unexpected actions or events occur to get in the way of it. Gatsby’s and Myrtle’s death were unexpected events that forever change both Daisy and Tom. There loves are now passed, need to move on and have a life of their own. Just maybe now they can have a happy marriage after

all.