Comparing Love And Greed In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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In the story The Great Gatsby, love and greed are intertwined with each other. A man of the parties, wealth, and mystery background, Jay Gatsby, was a poor boy from North Dakota, who hated poverty to the point that he changed his own name James Gatz to Jay Gatsby, and strive to become rich. In 1917, Gatsby joined the army for WW1, hoping that he might have a chance to get big. Before he leave for war, in Louisville, Gatsby met Daisy, and felled in love with her. Since Daisy was a very beautiful woman, Gatsby was afraid that she would not like him, so he lied to her about his background, saying that he is a rich man to convinced her that he was good enough for her. Before he leave for war, Daisy promised Gatsby that she will wait for him, however, because Gatsby took too long to returned, Daisy gave up on him and instead married Tom Buchanan. The reason why Gatsby took a long time to returned was because he was studying in Oxford, to get education and strive to get rich, so that he could marry Daisy as a real …show more content…
They both were blinded by love, they both were able to do anything for the person they love. Gatsby spends his entire life pursuing wealth, so that he could win Daisy. George Wilson spends his entire life trying to please or satisfied his wife Myrtle, whom he dearly love. But the difference between the two case is that, one has the person he love, but not her love, while the other person has the love, but she was already married and still trying to win her back. Nonetheless, both George and Gatsby work hard to obtain the women that they love, but lost everything in the end. In a society where wealth was everything, they were just some naive country pumpkin who have yet get use to how the city or the society roll at that time, 1900s was a time when wealthy people has the most
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