The past life, to Gatsby, is the type that he can only conceive in romantic tales. ... He wants desperately to retrieve the lost love and his most treasured values. ... As we can see, Gatsby is a man with a romantic disposition. ... In order to be his self-imaged romantic hero, Gatsby invents everything about him, including his birthplace and his education background, in an effort to render himself what a romantic hero is supposed to have and to convince others of his possession of the romantic qualities. ... On Gatsby's side, it is a romantic comedy, working towards the reunion or th...

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The corruption of the American dream in the 1920's era is shown in The Great Gatsby through symbolism, materialism, and romantic dreams and hopes. ... When Daisy meets jay and they fall in love, he is a lower class man getting ready to head into combat, after he leaves Daisy to go to war she forgets about him and goes to Tom Buchanan only because he can offer her wealth and love. ... The worst case is Gatsby who is under the illusion that his riches can make Daisy love him once again. ... Jay even takes blame for Myrtle's murder, which in turn kills him showing his true love for...

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"Love can sometimes be magic. ... In Slumdog Millionaire, love certainly conquers all. ... So, what does this mean for love? ... This begs the question – is it ever possible to attain the perfect love, or is perfection in love really an illusion? ... In the sixties, people were feeling more freedom to experiment with love - 'the power of love' was propagated by thousands of 'hippies'. ...

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Finally, to Nick Carraway, Gatsby's neighbor and the author of the book, Gatsby is great for his fatalistic idealism, his unwavering hope to win back his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. ... As Nick observes, "It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world" (48). ... His riches are but a means to an end, which is to impress his lost love, Daisy Buchanan, and win her back. Gatsby's unwavering quest to win Daisy back, even when it becomes obviously impossible, ...

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Daisy grew up rich, so her love for Gatsby does not overpower her love of money. ... Fitzgerald also uses the eyes to symbolize the romantic, or unrealistic, notion of the American Dream. ... The lyrics say Mellencamp is "another boring romantic." He had the romantic, dreamlike, illusion of being whatever he wants until he achieves his goal, and only then does he realize that he will always be a small town boy. Mellencamp was also fooled by the romantic notion of the American Dream, and that is why the album is named American Fool. ...

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What appears to be a genuine romantic relationship is actually a thinly veiled manifestation of materialistic lust. ... It was his ability to hope for the promises of life and romantic opportunities that might present themselves. ... But Gatsby failed to realize that he doesn't truly loves the person Daisy but the materialistic wealth that is symbolized by her. He loves her because she will complete his image of his dream, the prestigious and patrician wealth that he dreamed about since he was a teenager. ... The fact that "many men had already loved Daisy" actually "increa...

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Gatsby us forced to go off to World War I before Daisy and him can be wed or get any further involved with their romantic relationship. ... Tom ends up buying Daisy's love with a $300,000.00 necklace. ... When Daisy finally finds out where Gatsby is and about his money that he has, she falls back in love with him. ... She was very much in love with Gatsby, but because he wasn't wealthy, she married someone else. As soon as she found out that he DID have money, she fell back in love with him. ...

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With World War I going on as he entered, Fitzgerald, convinced that he would die in battle quickly wrote his first novel The Romantic Egoist. ... Still stationed at Camp Sheridan, Fitzgerald's publisher once again rejected the revised edition of The Romantic Egoist that Fitzgerald had so diligently worked on. ... Like Fitzgerald, Gatsby falls in love with a beautiful woman while stationed at a military camp in the south. The two men also spent vast amounts of money to please the women they loved. ... Ginevera King was Fitzgerald's first real love, but her family rejected him, ag...

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Jake is in love with Brett and Nick is in love with Jordan Baker. ... However, Nick becomes romantically involved with Jordan, while Brett won't do anything more than kiss Jake. ... Love is an important part of Nick and Jake's life. ... In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby's love for Daisy parallels Nick's love for Jordan. However, Nick's love is far less intense than Gatsby's. ...

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We also find out what the green light on the other side of the harbor is, showing that Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, even after all these years. ... This chapter he tells Daisy that he is still in love with her and that he has always loved her. ... In a way, Gatsby's dream of him and Daisy was way more romantic than her actually being with him. Some girls think it is really romantic for a guy to base his whole world around you and what you like. ... In a way though, it might not really make a difference, due to the fact that he has been built up to be a great guy and madly in...

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Scott Fitzgerald's, romantic classic, The Great Gatsby. ... In his pursuit of Daisy he discards his true self and turns himself into a man that he believes will win the affections of his one true love. ... Gatsby immediately fell in love with Daisy's aura of luxury, grace, and charm, and lied to her about his own background in order to convince her that he was good enough for her. ... Even when it is obvious to everyone else that Daisy cannot possibly love him, he remains hopeful that she will call. ...

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In using psychoanalysis, the classic novel, "The Great Gatsby" evolves from a tragic love story into one full of dysfunction. The romantic relationships in this novel provide some human behaviors that serve as rich topics for psychoanalytic criticism. ... After, looking into the history of Tom and Daisy's relationship there is a completely different story portrayed about her love for her husband. ... In psychoanalytic terms, a woman who falls in love with a man suffering from fear of intimacy probably fears intimacy herself. ... Falling so much in love with a man who is openly unfaithful...

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Within this bleakness Fitzgerald has chosen to write about Jay Gatsby, a man who symbolizes the American Dream, who has "an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I (Nick) have never found in any other person." ... Daisy's love for him is founded on his money and reputation. ... He loves Daisy and he believes that she"ll make him happy. ... Love doesn't matter. ... He wants us to trust Nick and to believe in the "romantic readiness" he sees in Gatsby. ...

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This applies to Gatsby and Daisy considering Gatsby wants a stable and romantic relationship with Daisy. ... Gatsby continually idolizes Daisy, and fantasizes of having a life with his true love. ... This extravagant gesture suggests that this love for Daisy is excessive. ... The obsessiveness of Gatsby's love for Daisy takes a turn when Gatsby invites Daisy to his mansion. ... He enhances the otherwise confusing love between Gatsby and Daisy with a simple symbol. ...

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Gatsby and Daisy love each other deeply. ... They still love each other after five years of separation. In the first stage of the relationship, Gatsby and Daisy are madly in love with each other. ... Daisy is Gatsby's goddess: "The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed so romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since," everything about her enchants him. ... Although Daisy marries someone and even though they were separated for five years, the intensity of their love hasn't chan...

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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, he had an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." ... Gatsby proves to us that his desire in life is to have and keep Daisy's love for himself, and also feels this is the only thing he needs to live. He realizes that the only way to get Daisy's love is to have lots of money and now considers money as a need as well. Th...

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During the war, Fitzgerald wrote the Romantic Egotist which was rejected twice. He also fell in love and became engaged to Zelda Sayre, who left him due to his lack of success. ... Daisy abandons Jay, even though she loves him, because he has no money. ... Tom claims to love Daisy yet he is an adulterer and he makes her life miserable. ... Take chances in life and in love and you will be rewarded. ...

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Instead, it is a form of romantic idealism. ... Unfortunately, Gatsby's faith in love and happy endings is not a realistic one and his dream is ultimately crushed. ... Daisy cannot help but fall short of Gatsby's dream, and so Gatsby is disappointed that the woman he loves does not exist as he imagines her to be. ...

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" Romantic as this may seem, there are consequences that come in its stead. ... Paradoxically, upon re-encountering Daisy, Gatsby begins to covet the time in the past when he and Daisy were in love. ... (Fitzgerald 9) Upon this dismal revelation, Dexter becomes nostalgic of his past and of the romantic idealism that once flourished in "the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life....

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However, he remains Gatsby's ally and defends him to the end, just because he admires Gatsby's "extraordinary gift for hope (Page 6)" and "romantic readiness (Page 6)." ... It mirrors the minds of many lovers, torn between self-involvement and love. ... These are all characteristics off love! ... A "man" doesn't fall in love. Therefore, we can recognize Nick's ridiculous admission to love as a valid one, for it would be difficult for most men to agree to love: "I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity." ...

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Throughout the movie, Nick visits Tom and Daisy periodically, and on one of those visits is introduced to Jordan Baker, a woman that he begins a romantic relationship with. ... Tom then asks Gatsby about his intentions for Daisy, and he replies that Daisy loves him, not Tom. ... After watching the battle for her love, Daisy chooses Tom. ... When he met Daisy while training to be an officer in Louisville, he fell in love with hers and was willing to do anything to gain the social position he thought necessary to win her love. ... On the surface "The Great Gatsby- is a story of ill-fated lo...

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Gatsby was a romantic dreamer who wished to fulfill his ideal by gaining wealth in hopes of impressing and eventually winning the heart of the affluent, materialist, superficial Daisy. ... They fell in love unfortunately Daisy was from a different social status. ... Daisy would not leave her social statues for the man she loved. ... There was happiness and torment in the love he shared for Daisy. ... He was persistent in his pursuit of Daisy and his determination to gain her love. ...

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Everything revolves around Daisy; he even "revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes." ... He knows Daisy loves money, wealth, and prestige, and he believes he can use his fortune to win back her affections. ... she cried pointing 'I love it '" (Fitzgerald 95-96) Gatsby brags to Daisy about his wardrobe: "I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. ... The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned 'character'- (Fitzgerald 70) When asked by the narrator ab...

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The setting also is symbiolic of Fritzgerald's satire of 1920s New York lifestyle , most important of all , brings out the themes of American dream , money and romantic love. ... "It took me (Gatsby) just three years to earn the money that bought it ( his mansion) " Gatsby's mind evolves around the American Dream , he thinks that with money , he could buy back loss time and love between Daisy and him , even though their relationship has ended five years ago and Daisy is now married with a child. " "Can't repeat the past" he (Gatsby) cried incredulously ."... Gatbsy ...

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For example, if an author was writing in the romantic period (1790-1830) he/she would most likely be writing about or alluding to nature, individualism, and self-imagination, (Wheeler). ... For example, "The Great Gatsby," is considered great because it explores universal themes of love and rejection. ...

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