Love in the Great Gatsby

Gatsby has everything that money can buy, but it won't guarantee you the heart of the girl you love. Wealth and accomplishment attracted Gatsby. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the money will not fully buy you the happiness you need. As they are all hungry for wealth, they all have their own characteristics that make them different. Due to this, they all presumed to be someone they are not. Jay Gatsby is around protagonist that tried to accomplish everything for the wrong reason, he became mysterious, wealthy and obsessive.

Jay Gatsby, a bootlegger, starts off as a mysterious concrete character. As many didn't know Gatsby opened about his past and told Nick that, James Gatz- that was really, or at least legally, [Gatsby's] name (98). Everyone knows him as Jay Gatsby, became successful and wealthy, though it results in him to close up on most people he loves. This causes everyone to judge and critic on what kind of business he does. 'Who is he?' I demanded. 'Do you know' 'He's just a man named Gatsby.' 'Where is he from, I mean? And what does he do?' (49).

Wealth comes with a lot of questions and rumors, He's a bootlegger, said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. One time he killed a man who had found out he was the nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil (61). During Chapter 5 Gatsby somewhat tells Nick about what his business is and invites him to work with him, but was never confirmed until Chapter 7, Tom exposes that Gatsby built up his wealth by selling illegal alcohol with Meyer Wolfsheim. Jay Gatsby became successful; however, not everyone approves, may cause rumors, but his reasoning for it all is Daisy.

A bootlegger, a person that sells illegal alcohol, was what they considered Gatsby because he was so wealthy. His home was described as, the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden (5). The inside of his house was even better, We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing-rooms and pool rooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor (91). However, Gatsby was not always blessed with money, in his younger years he struggled. He worked to get where he got, he got Cody to acknowledge for that, he was a wealthy copper mogul and rode out to warn him about a storm. When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody's lover didn't let him claim his inheritance. Gatsby committed to becoming a wealthy and successful man.

As everyone knows, because Gatsby has been in love with Daisy for a long time, he would do anything to be with her. They first meet in 1917, Gatsby quickly fell in love with Daisy for her beauty and wealth. He knew if daisy knew about him being poor she wouldn't be interested, so he committed to making another life to impress her. They promised to wait for each other, but Daisy couldn't wait, so she married Tom. In a conversation between Nick and Jordan, she says, 'It was a strange coincidence,' I said. 'But it wasn't a coincidence at all.' 'Why not?' 'Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay' (147), not everyone does that for a loved one. Gatsby got to be in her presence after 5 years, He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy, he was consumed with wonder at her presence.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock (113); being nervous was an understatement. He was confident that Daisy loves him, he even stood up to Tom, 'Your wife doesn't love you,' said Gatsby. 'She's never loved you. She loves me'... 'She never loved you, do you hear?' he cried. 'She's only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!' (130). Daisy was Gatsby's past, present, and future. She moved on but Gatsby died with his one wish of her Daisy being his, his obsession for Daisy was as much about his obsession for another, better life.

Overall, Gatsby's traits of being mysterious, wealthy, and obsessive make him who he is today, his determination to win back the heart of the woman he loves. F. Scott Fitzgerald used the knowledge he already knew and made a well- known character that would do anything for a woman. He dreamt about always being with her his whole life, but he died without her. Like Gatsby we all fall in love, he would have done anything to be with her but got killed for protecting a woman that couldn't decide. Gatsby knew what he was doing, but love is bigger than anything, he struggled to get Daisy, yet we all don't win.

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