Love and obsession in the great gatsby
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There is a fine line between love and lust. If love is only a will to posess, it is not love at all.
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 misconcepcion. 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 of his love, and he ends up dead because of it.
The author developed the character of Jay Gatsby as arrogant and tasteless. Gatsby's love interest, Daisy Buchanan is the perfect example of how women of her level of society were supposed to act in her lifetime. For Daisy to be with Gasby was a forbidden thing, concidering the fact that she was married. That very concept of forbidden love also made it all more intense, for the idea of having a prohibited love, like in William Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet, made it even more desirable.
Because Daisy was married, it was impossible for her and Gatsby to be together, but this did not stop them from secretly flirting and showing affection for one another...