The Great Gatsby
There is a fine line between love and lust. If love is only a will to possess, it is not love. To love someone is to hold them dear to one's heart. In The Great Gatsby, the characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in reality, this seems to be a misconception. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of love, lust and obsession, through the character of Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and obsession with love. By the end of the novel however, Jay Gatsby is denied his "love" and suffers an untimely death. The author interconnects the relationships of the various prominent characters to support these ideas. The character of Jay Gatsby was a wealthy business man, who the author developed as arrogant and tasteless. Gatsby's love interest, Daisy Buchanan, was a subdued socialite who was married to the dim witted Tom Buchanan. She is the perfect example of how women of her level of society were supposed to act in her day. The circumstances surrounding Gatsby and Daisy's relationship kept them eternally apart. For Daisy to have been with Gatsby would have been forbidden, due to the fact that she was married. That very concept of their love being forbidden, also made it all the more intense, for the
He thinks of nothing else but her and constantly analyses over every little detail of her life. 'And she doesn't understand,' he said. Throughout the novel, the character of Gatsby portrayed the succession of love, to lust, to obsession. By the end of this book, Gatsby becomes obsessed with Daisy. It is mentioned that before he met Daisy, he lusted after many women, yet he held no respect for them. We'd sit for hours-' He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers. Gatsby's whole efforts in this book are focused on trying to bring him and Daisy back to the point of time before he joined the army, except this time he has enough money for her. 'She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. She walked away with her life and social status in tact and continued to live in luxury, paying no thought to the fact that the man she had "loved", was killed for an action that she herself had committed. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house - just as if it were five years ago. He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted. 'You can't repeat the past' 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. If love is only a will to possess, it is not love. He remembered the past and convinced himself that it could be like that once again.
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