The Great Gatsby's Love
“Am I in love with you? Or am I in love with the feeling?”
This targets a major question about Gatsby’s affection for Daisy: does he truly love her?
In the novel, Gatsby and Daisy’s first kiss is described as Gatsby tells the story to Nick: “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. . . . Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” Gatsby explains that in that moment, they were vulnerable and finally confessed their true thoughts and feelings as they kissed. Apparently, he falls in love with Daisy and has been in love with her ever since.
However, Daisy is a different person five years later, so how …show more content…
When Nick stresses to Gatsby that he cannot repeat the past, Gatsby does not react well: “‘Can’t repeat the past?’ He cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can! ’ He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ he said, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.’” (110). Clearly, Gatsby is not truly in love with Daisy, otherwise he would cherish prize of simply being with her again. He wants to repeat the past because he is in love with the feeling he had.
Gatsby hangs on to this feeling, which develops into an obsession. He has specific plans based on getting Daisy back and goes so far as to buying a specific mansion just to be across the bay from her.
“I’m notorious for thinking you’re full of beautiful instead of hollow”
His love for the feeling that develops this obsession, also drives him to create this perfect and flawless image of her; however, Daisy does not live up to Gatsby’s
This targets a major question about Gatsby’s affection for Daisy: does he truly love her?
In the novel, Gatsby and Daisy’s first kiss is described as Gatsby tells the story to Nick: “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. . . . Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” Gatsby explains that in that moment, they were vulnerable and finally confessed their true thoughts and feelings as they kissed. Apparently, he falls in love with Daisy and has been in love with her ever since.
However, Daisy is a different person five years later, so how …show more content…
When Nick stresses to Gatsby that he cannot repeat the past, Gatsby does not react well: “‘Can’t repeat the past?’ He cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can! ’ He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ he said, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.’” (110). Clearly, Gatsby is not truly in love with Daisy, otherwise he would cherish prize of simply being with her again. He wants to repeat the past because he is in love with the feeling he had.
Gatsby hangs on to this feeling, which develops into an obsession. He has specific plans based on getting Daisy back and goes so far as to buying a specific mansion just to be across the bay from her.
“I’m notorious for thinking you’re full of beautiful instead of hollow”
His love for the feeling that develops this obsession, also drives him to create this perfect and flawless image of her; however, Daisy does not live up to Gatsby’s