Examples Of Unrequited Love In The Great Gatsby

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Unrequited love produces painful events that can haunt people for a lifetime. F. Scott Fitzgerald makes this painfully obvious in his book, The Great Gatsby, using characters Daisy Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, and Nick Carraway. In this narrative two lovers, Daisy and Gatsby, reunite after a five-year separation, a reunion that breeds perilous and dramatic issues. Fitzgerald’s message in The Great Gatsby is the lengths a man will go to for love, which he portrays through Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy that drove him to pursue economic success, compelled him to take the fall for the murder she committed, and caused him to pine after her despite her marriage and daughter.
Daisy’s love of a luxurious lifestyle gave Gatsby the idea that material things were the only way to her heart. As Gatsby explains to the narrator, Nick, a part of his and Daisy’s love story, he says, “She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand” (Fitzgerald, 134-135). The people in Daisy's life were pushing her to marry a practical man of money and status, not a penniless nobody like Gatsby. This turned the gears in Gatsby’s head and formed the thought that Daisy would love and marry him if and …show more content…
As the narrator describes it, he, Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby are all at the Buchanans’ residence for lunch when Pammy, Daisy and Tom’s daughter, makes a brief appearance. “Afterward he [Gatsby] kept looking at the child with surprise.” He never really “believed in its existence before” (Fitzgerald,105). Gatsby undoubtedly knew then that Daisy was a mother. In an earlier scene Gatsby meets Tom when he accompanies Daisy to a party, making it evident that she is married. In the scene to follow, Gatsby persists in fighting for Daisy, knowing full well of her domestic duties. He was
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