Powerless in Love Great Gatsby

Love is a very herculean emotion. It is sufficient to consume a persons mind and control their all(prenominal) thought, every fulfill and every dream. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how get laid can hold a mans effect and mind warrantor through the portrayal of Jay Gatsbys pursuit of the love of his tone. In Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsbys join and mind remain fixed on his past love of Daisy Buchanan as he draws a dream of once again returning to that moment in the past.Blinded by the fast one of Daisy as a tangible commodity, Gatsby is inspired by passion and love to delimit himself as he risks everything and consequently meets his bear demise in his effort to reunite with Daisy and achieve his dreams. After falling in love with Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby fantasizes close their future behavior together and creates an illusion of her that is far beyond reality. Gatsby is enthralled by his past love, and as a result of his longing desire to restore this moment in meter he has created the illusion of a woman synonymous to a goddess.Nick mentions on the afternoon that Gatsby and Daisy are reunited, There must wee been moments that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of Gatsbys dreams not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything, (95). When Gatsby meets Daisy once again after five years, he is disappointed, not by any bring through of Daisy, but because Gatsby has blown her up to be in equal comparison of a Greek goddess. Daisy is uneffective to live up to this supernatural illusion.Fitzgerald hints at Gatsbys impression of Daisys superiority through their foremost kiss. He says, At Gatsbys lips touch she blossoms for him like a flower and the incarnation is complete, (111). At this moment, Gatsby is finally able to touch this goddess that he pictures Daisy as being. His pursuit of this seemingly unattainable dream is achieved when Daisy kisses him. She is incarn ated so to speak from her nip and tuck as a goddess to a tangible idea in Gatsbys mind. Her illusion of perfectionism changes to an image of a mere woman an extravagant woman, but not forbidden from Gatsbys grasp any longer.He makes it his living long dream to return to this moment in time. When he kisses her he forever weds his unutterable visions to her spoilable breath, (110). His mind has been locked in his visions of Daisy and he becomes confident with the idea of being able to be with her. This confidence inspires him to redefine himself in order to achieve a position in gild suitable to Daisys demands. As a result of Gatsbys dream, he is motivated to become a man suitable to alleviate Daisy, and in doing so he must redefine himself and his image in society.Daisy is a woman of inherited wealth a member of the rich elite class in society. Nick mentions that Gatsby takes her under delusive pretenses. Nick doesnt mean that Gatsby has traded on his phantom millions, but he has deliberately given Daisy a sense of pledge he lets her believe that he is a person from much the same stratum as herself that he was fully able to take care of her, (149). Gatsby understands that he is not qualified by the unwritten laws of society to be with Daisy. He knows that such a relationship will be shunned by the laws of social life during this time.However, the forbidden fruit is the sweetest. Even though a relationship with Daisy is essentially prohibited, Gatsby strives to be of her class and for the time being lies to her about his social status. He makes her believe that he can support her comfortably in order to give himself a chance at winning over her heart. He learns that Daisy is swayed by bullion just as much as she is swayed by the looks or charm of a man. Therefore he devotes his life, from the moment of his set-back kiss with Daisy to the present time, to accruing a vast amount of wealth and notoriety.He purchases a signboard crosswise the bay from Da isys residence perhaps in the hopes that one day she may be interested in this grandiose house lit up like a jack-o-lantern across the bay. Nick has an epiphany of Gatsbys intentions as he says, then it had not been merely the stars to which Gatsby had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered shortly from the womb of his purposeless splendorHe had waited five years and bought a mansion where he lot star unobjectionable to casual mothsso that he could come over some afternoon to a strangers garden, (78).It is Gatsbys sole purpose to attract Daisy back into his daily life. For this reason he throws parties once every two weeks in the hopes that Daisy will be intrigued by the music and the lit up mansion across the bay and wander right into his house. Essentially, Gatsby is hoping that Daisy will be attracted to the lights of his house just as moths are attracted to the light of a lantern in the night.He dedicates himself toward this dream of reuniting with Daisy an d he creates a facade of a wealthy and flamboyant life believing that if Daisy did ever wander into his house, she would feel that Gatsby is now capable of fulfilling her needs and supporting her comfortably. He cute all of his possessions only on the basis that Daisy may enjoy them. When Gatsby gives Daisy a tour of his mansion, Nick says, I think Gatsby revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-love eyes, (91).At this point it appears as though Gatsby would be ready to rid himself of any of his possessions which Daisy disliked. Everything in his house is methodically purchased for entertaining Daisy and advertising his wealth. He dedicates himself toward a dream and is willing to redefine himself and sacrifice everything in the pursuit of Daisy. As Gatsbys heart remains fixed in the past, he is in a constant struggle with time as he risks everything in his attempt to erase the past and achieve his dream. Gatsbys vivid memory of Da isy and her smasher has him constantly dreaming of the past and fantasizing of an idea that is impossible.He desires to turn back time and erase Daisys relationship with tom completely. Nick realizes that Gatsby wants nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say I neer love you. After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken, (109). Tom is the only obstacle in between Gatsby and the achievement of his dream. Gatsby desires nothing more than for Daisy to admit that she never loved Tom and had always loved Gatsby. He wants to know that she reciprocated his love during the years they had been remote from each other.However, Daisy is otiose to admit this and Gatsbys dream is shattered. As he tries to erase the past in her mind, she becomes further distant from him and all hopes of reuniting are failing. Gatsby desperately attempts to revive his dream, but with every word Daisy was drawing furth er and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that helpless voice across the room, (134).Gatsby puts an immense amount of effort into recreating the past and bring around a dream only to see it all collapse before his very eyes. His whole public is centered on his love Daisy as he is overwhelmed by his obsession to win her heart. He has lost everything and his life has become meaningless. Up to this point, he allows his heart to rule his mind and he has put every moment of the past five years into accruing a fortune to attract Daisy. Fitzgerald reveals, No amount of give the axe or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart, (96).Fitzgerald implies the emotions generated from affairs of the heart have an uncanny power to control a mans actions and his dreams. It is the power of Gatsbys heart that leads him on his journey and motivates him to create his dream and his illusion of Daisy as a tangible ideal. This illusion initiated by his passion and love leads him to his own downfall and the collapse of his dreams. As a result of his heartfelt love for Daisy, Gatsbys every moment is controlled by a time-warped illusion of his first moments with Daisy and his unfurling dream to recapture the love of his life.His pursuit of love is the force behind his attempt to redefine himself and create a new, wealthy Gatsby, suitable to Daisy and capable of achieving his dream of the two reuniting in love. Fitzgerald effectively demonstrates the power love has over a mans soul and actions through the portrayal of Jay Gatsby in his quest and ultimate failure to win the heart of Daisy in his novel The Great Gatsby. Through his characterization of Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates that no enumerate how much passion or confidence a man may put into his dreams, they may never be achieved and may le ave that man with nothing.Jay Gatsby epitomizes the affects the pursuit of love can have on a man as he passionately throws himself into his dreams of living happily ever after with Daisy and bases his whole humans around her. Consequently, although Gatsby is able to redefine himself into a rich and powerful man in a moneymaking(a) sense, the failure to win Daisys love renders him powerless as he is left with an empty heart and a dead, meaningless dream.