Love Theme In The Great Gatsby

Considered an American classic, F. Fitzgerald’s tale of The Great Gatsby can be condensed into the creation, the attaining and the loss of a man’s dream. But it delves into the roaring twenties and falls into a era with an almost dreamlike quality, where the parties are loud, the people fickle and the falls from grace are brutal. The Great Gatsby contains characters who we never truly meet, instead we meet their masks, masks which in turn are all either the source or object of one of the fatal flaws: love, lust and greed.

Although the main theme of The Great Gatsby is love the true theme is lust and desire, which is the source of the books dark nature. The truly natures of characters are never reveled, only their words and emotions but never their personalities. And by extension, the characters never meet each other true natures, which is source of the characters tainted ties to each other, why only desire, lust and greed join them together rather than love. Because love needs a stong foundation and masks are too easily wrenched away

The Great Gatsby represents not only Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age but also his own life. Similar to Gatsby, Fitzgerald is a sensitive man who idolizes wealth and the rich and he also obtained a
Their lust-triangle is perhaps what would happen if Daisy had married Gatsby before he made is millions, a man in love with his wife but the wife strays for wealth. But what is interesting is although Myrtle has very little relevance in the book apart from her death via car driven by Daisy, she connects most of the characters together. While Tom and George share Myrtle, it is George and Gatsby who lose their loves to Tom, and Myrtle and Daisy are both abused yet attracted to Tom. The sick ties that bind them together reveal the true natures and true