The Great Gatsby love lust obsession

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The Great Gatsby ----love lust
obsession

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Love, lust and obsession

• There is a fine line between love and lust. If
  love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
• To love someone is to hold them dear to one's
  heart.
• In The Great Gatsby, the characters, Jay Gatsby
  and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in
  reality, this seems to be a misconception.

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love

• The character of Jay Gatsby was a wealthy
  business man, who the author developed as
  arrogant and tasteless.
• Gatsby's love interest, Daisy Buchanan, was a
  subdued socialite who was married to the dim
  witted Tom Buchanan
• She is the perfect example of how women of her
  level of society were supposed to act in her day.

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love

• His heart began to beat faster as Daisy's white
  face came up to his own. He knew that when he
  kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable
  visions to her perishable breath, his mind would
  never romp again like the mind of God. So he
  waited, listening for a moment longer to the
  tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
  Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she
  blossomed for him like a flower and the
  incarnation was complete.

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love

• His memory of her is sweet and beautiful so that
  even without saying it, it is obvious that he
  was, and possibly is still, in love with her. He
  remembered the past and convinced himself that it
  could be like that once again. He became
  delusional with love, and was blinded by it.
• Because Daisy was married, it was impossible for
  she and Gatsby to be together, but this did not
  stop them from secretly flirting and quietly
  exchanging their tokens of affection.

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lust

• Their eyes met, and they stared together at each
  other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced
  down at the table.
• 'You always look so cool,' she repeated. She had
  told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw
  
• Before this quote, Tom had no inkling of Gatsby
  and Daisy's secret affair and when he finds out,
  it makes him crazed

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lust

• To lust for someone is to have sexual longings
  for a person. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
  portrays lust through Gatsby. It is mentioned
  that before he met Daisy, he lusted after many
  women, yet he held no respect for them.
• He knew women early, and since they spoiled him
  he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins
  because they were ignorant, of the others because
  they were hysterical about things which in his
  overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.
  

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lust

• Until he met Daisy, he took women for granted,
  never understanding the value of respect and
  love. The character of Gatsby gives enough
  evidence to conclude that lust has nothing to do
  with love, and that they are entirely different
  frames of mind. Gatsby lusted for women, but did
  not respect or love his lust objects. They were
  only objects of desire.

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obsession

• When lust becomes an obsession, lust becomes
  dangerous. It can completely overpower a person
  until they become controlled by it. By the end of
  this book, Gatsby becomes obsessed with Daisy. He
  thinks of nothing else but her and constantly
  analyses over every little detail of her life. He
  wanted her so much to have her, that it consumed
  his life.

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End

• Throughout the novel, the character of Gatsby
  portrayed the succession of love, to lust, to
  obsession. By showing this succession, he
  differentiated between the three, deducting that
  they all were different things. If love is only a
  will to possess, it is not love.