Throughout the novel, the obsession with materials covers up the fact that money cannot buy love or happiness like how Gatsby bought a large house and threw ginormous parties solely to impress Daisy. Most of the relationships in the novel are also just an “illusions of true love” for example, Tom and Daisy’s marriage for the social status and Gatsby’s imaginary pedestal of Daisy that she could not live up to. The Great Gatsby is often referred to as a “love story” when in fact, almost every relationship we see in the book says the opposite. No two couples were completely in love and every relationship seems to have some sort of restrictions or expectations
Throughout the novel, the obsession with materials covers up the fact that money cannot buy love or happiness like how Gatsby bought a large house and threw ginormous parties solely to impress Daisy. Most of the relationships in the novel are also just an “illusions of true love” for example, Tom and Daisy’s marriage for the social status and Gatsby’s imaginary pedestal of Daisy that she could not live up to. The Great Gatsby is often referred to as a “love story” when in fact, almost every relationship we see in the book says the opposite. No two couples were completely in love and every relationship seems to have some sort of restrictions or expectations