Love and relationships in the Great Gatsby
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The great Gatsby 'Love' and relationships play a major role and are a driving force in this novel. Love is almost a character in itself as it features and ties the characters together in a web like manner. It has survived over time and is historically based as in the form of the infatuation Gatsby has felt for Daisy for many years. It is the driving force of the action as without this infatuation there would arguably have not been the novel. However, the object of Gatsby's great love hardly deserves his attentions. Lets us look at the characters to examine how each respond and relate to the concept of love. Daisy is married to Tom whose great love seems to be money and the preservation of the status quo between the classes. He clearly loves himself but has little that we could associate with love except for the ownership...


