“Gatsby makes the ideal of loving money pure than before, because he wants to recover the past. He thinks he can buy Daisy's love” (Na). He didn't know that the past cannot be repeated because the past is already behind us. Gatsby has a great vision for his life and Daisy was part of his plan; he wants Daisy's love but aims for high social status and power by marrying her. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, a central theme involves the idea that money cannot buy love; this is represented by Nick Carraway's narration of infidelity in the novel, Daisy's betrayal of Gatsby, and the end result of Gatsby's death. First, one of the most intriguing scenes that Nick Carraway recounts for us is infidelity in the novel. All the characters in the novel do not see the true identity of their loved ones and their actions; the personality and actions of the characters. For example, Gatsby loves Daisy but she also symbolizes everything he pursues to accomplish and to get what she wants Daisy should leave Tom. Daisy knows that Tom is having an affair with a woman married to her, Myrtle; yet he does nothing about it. He is careless and doesn't care what Tom does. In Daisy's mind, money and materialism are her main priority; even if that includes not involving love. Just like Donaldson says, he says he goes partying every now and then, he admits, but it doesn't matter, because he always comes back. As for Tom and Myrtle, Tom lies to Myrtle that he can't marry her because Daisy is Catholic and that Catholics don't believe in divorce in a marriage. When in the novel, Nick mentions “Daisy wasn't Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the complexity of the lie” (38). From men... at the center of the card... unconditionally by Daisy. They are all confused and brainwashed into thinking that money can buy anything, including love. When in reality money cannot buy love or at least it is not tainted money that Gatsby acquires to win Daisy's love or take her away from her husband Tom.Works CitedDonaldson, Scott. "Possessions in the Great Gatsby." The Southern Review 37.2 (2001):187. Literary Resource Center. Network. May 6. 2014.Fitzgerald, Scott F. The Great Gatsby. New York City: Scribner, 1995. Print.Lathbury, Roger. “Money, Love, and Aspiration in The Great Gatsby.” Main literary characters. Ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall: Chelsea House, 2004. 69-82. Stampa.Na, Li. “A Comparative Study of a Tale of Two Cities and The Great Gatsby: The Spirits of Self-Sacrifice in Romanticism.” Theory and practice of language studies 3.11 (2013):2067+. Literary Resource Center. Network. April 28. 2014.
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